In order to open our neighbour’s path to the EU and other organizations the country wants to join, there must be a compromise over the name dispute, said Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in an interview with the “Ethnos” newspaper.
“In the case of FYROM, our neighbors believed that they can continue joining these organizations without an agreement with us, something that is impossible, while some of us believed that foreign policy inertia is our weapon”, said Kotzias.
In the interview, he said that Athens and Skopje understand that we must work based on a consensus and compromise. When asked whether the now is the time to solve the name dispute, he said that all their interlocutors now understand that an honest compromise on the name issue must be found.
A new round of negotiations between Greece and Macedonia should begin on December 11th-12th in Brussels, with the mediation of UN envoy Matthew Nimetz.
