The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Kotzias gave a statement for the Greek daily newspaper “Kathimerini” that the government has an intention to solve the name dispute with Macedonia. He said that the national wound, which was opened 26 years ago, should be cured in 2018, writes “Kathimerini.”
-I believe that the dispute will be solved in the first half of the 2018 – said the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Otherwise, according to him, there will be “great complications.”
-It won’t be a good year for issues of a nature such as this one since we shall be in the middle of election campaigns, and problems like this will have to be solved in a relaxed atmosphere- explained Kotzias.