Tag: Prespa Accord

Russian news agency "Sputnik News", formerly known as "RIA Novosti" and "Voice of Russia", has already renamed the Republic of Macedonia to North Macedonia. Under the headline "Greece, N. Macedonia have "started talking" despite "identity conflict", the Russian agency that is part of the government's media consortium "Rossiya Segodnya", published an interview with Professor Neophytos Loizides from the University of Kent,...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Matthew Palmer, will today visit Macedonia. Palmer will meet with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, as well as representatives from various political parties. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that at the meeting with Dimitrov, they will discuss the Euro-Atlantic perspectives of the Republic of Macedonia, as...

"We firmly support the full implementation of the Prespa Agreement," said a US State Department official replying to a question from the portal "Real.gr" in Washington, on the US position on Panos Kammenos's plan B, which was allegedly presented at his meeting with Wess Mitchell. "We are not publicly announcing the details of our personal diplomatic talks, but the position...

Macedonia has begun screening for the EU accession process which will end in June 2019, however, if the Prespa Accord there will be no membership negotiations, explains Bojan Maricic, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Chief Technical Negotiator in the European Integration Process. Screening, or determining the alignment of Macedonian legislation with EU law, is a technical process...

At an informal summit of EU defense ministers in Vienna, Greek Defense Minister and leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks, Panos Kammenos, said that the mention of a Macedonian nation goes against any agreement and infuriates the Greek people, who will also have the last word, regardless of the referendum and the constitutional changes in Macedonia, the Greek Ministry...

With a High NATO Delegation in Skopje, led by James Mackey, head of the Euro-Atlantic & Global Partnership office at NATO, defacto accession negotiations for NATO membership begin, said NATO co-ordinator Stevo Pendarovski at a news conference today. “We are very pleased that we have a NATO delegation that was created immediately after the decision was made in Brussels, which...

More than 40 university professors, intellectuals, philosophers and students expressed their support for the Prespa Accord between Macedonia and Greece for resolving the name dispute, assessing it as a breakdown and the best solution to resolve the 27-year long dispute between the two countries. In a letter to the British newspaper The Guardian, signatories who are from some of the...