FYROM naming dispute
“FYROM deal was the best possible, protects our national interests” says minister Nikos Kotzias
“We did not give anything in exchange for something else, we made the best deal for the country,” Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Tuesday, talking to ANT1 TV about the Athens-Skopje agreement to resolve the name dispute.
Communist party refuses to vote any agreement with FYROM, opposes country’s joining NATO
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) will not vote any agreement on the FYROM issue, whatever it might be, stated KKE parliamentary spokesman Thanassis Pafilis during a press conference at the city of Chania, Crete on Wednesday.
The United States continue to support negotiations for FYROM naming dispute, State Department says
The US once again expressed its support for the ongoing negotiations to resolve the issue of FYROM’s name, in a U.S. State Department announcement on Friday.
ND vice-president Georgiadis: “SYRIZA policy on FYROM a huge mistake, won’t pass in Parliament”
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) vice-president Adonis Georgiadis in an interview with Praktoreio 104.9 FM on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of operating on party interest lines instead of keeping a united national front in the negotiations for FYROM name issue.
FYROM name dispute: Positive messages from the Tusk-Tsipras phone call ahead of summit
The messages from Athens and Skopje regarding the FYROM name issue are positive, an EU official said on Tuesday, pointing out that this issue was the subject of a phone call between European Council President Donald Tusk and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, ahead of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Thursday in Sofia, Bulgaria.