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Bartol: Resolving the name dispute with Greece and reforms are crucial for NATO membership

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Resolving the name issue is crucial for Macedonia’s accession to NATO. Together, with a mutually acceptable solution to the name issue rests, also, the importance of reform and stability in the country, said Captain Gorzad Bartol, the Chief of the NATO Liaison Office, Skopje, in an interview with “European Western Balkans”.

According to Bartol, the formation of the new government is a step in the right direction. However, it is now important that the government pursue reforms; and that all parties put their divisions aside, and engage constructively in the political process.

“In Warsaw last year, NATO leaders encouraged “the building of a fully functioning multi-ethnic society based on the full implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001” and urged “all political parties in the country to fully implement their commitments under the Pržino Agreement of June/July 2015” and under this framework “to engage in effective democratic dialogue, as well as to strengthen the rule of law, media freedom, and judicial independence.” We are encouraged by the fact that the government has already started to work closely with EU Commissioner Hahn and Mr. Priebe on urgent reform priorities, to which NATO also attaches great importance. In the end, reforms carried out in the interest of all people in my host country are beneficial for three reasons: they help to consolidate stability within the country; they help the country moving towards Euro-Atlantic integration; and they strengthen the country’s resilience against interference from outside”, said Bartol.

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