Macedonia

The name issue should not overshadow Macedonia’s forthcoming presidency of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, the Council of Europe Secretary General said.

The EU on Tuesday urged Macedonian government to take swift action to settle the long-standing name dispute with neighboring Greece. Erwan Fouere, EU’s ambassador to Macedonia, asked Macedonian government to make a quick decision on whether it

UN Mediator in Macedonian-Greek name row Matthew Nimetz has announced a new meeting with Macedonian officials toward mid-April, FM Milososki said. “Mr. Nimetz announced to come and meet with us towards mid-April. We are ready for his visit as we always are”, FM Milososki said.

I hope that Macedonian and Greek governments will use the remaining time of Spain’s mandate as the holder of the EU’s rotating presidency to solve name issue and finally get a green light by EU member states for start of accession talks with EU, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said.

Macedonia is fully committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution to Greece-imposed name issue, which impedes Macedonia’s NATO membership, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said.

MACEDONIA Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reiterated his country’s support to Macedonia’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic community as well as to good relations between Macedonia and Turkey. Davutoglu held talks with his Macedonian counterpart Antonio Milososki on Friday. The two reaffirmed the good political, economic and cultural ties between …

There were no breakthroughs in the Athens-Skopje name gridlock after the prime ministers of the two countries, Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou, met on Thursday in Brussels. “The positions of Macedonia and Greece on the name issue in general remain far apart even after today’s meeting,” Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Antonio …

The meeting between Macedonian and Greek prime ministers has ended without comments for the press. As the Macedonian government said earlier the two ministers discussed the name

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is slated to meet senior EU officials as well as Greek PM George Papandreou during his 2-day visit to Brussels. PM Gruevski is scheduled to meet President of EU Council Herman Van Rompuy, President of European Parliament

It is false to believe that European Union set additional benchmarks for Macedonia, Secretariat for European Affairs (SEA) informed. SEA denied any accusations made by former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Ivica