“ I feel happy and fortunate that I happened to be prime minister at a time when there was a significant political change in the neighbouring country, which gave Prime Minister Zaev and myself the opportunity to make a real and laborious effort to solve a problem going back decades,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said […]
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held a telephone conversation with his FYROM counterpart, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, at 3:00 p.m. on Monday.
The telephone conversation between the prime ministers of Greece Alexis Tsipras and FYROM Zoran Zaev earlier on Monday is a decisive step towards a resolution of the name issue, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Kontra TV on the same evening.
Επίσκεψη στα Σκόπια πραγματοποίησε σήμερα, μετά τη σύνοδο στη Σόφια, η πρωθυπουργός της Μ. Βρετανίας Τερέζα Μέι όπου συναντήθηκε με τον πρωθυπουργό της ΠΓΔΜ, Ζόραν Ζάεβ και εκπροσώπους της αντιπολίτευσης.
“We had exceptionally interesting talks which will have an impact on the future of the region and the broader European Union, said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday after the completion of the EU-West Balkans Summit in Sofia.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ meeting with FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in Sofia was concluded on Thursday.
“We are at the final stage of exiting the memorandum,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the preparatory meeting of the Party of European Socialists (PES) summit in Sofia on Wednesday, according to government officials.
The EU-West Balkans Summit to be held on Thursday in Sofia will be based on the 2003 Thessaloniki Declaration, which stated unequivocally that “the future of the Balkans is within the European Union”, and will reaffirm the European perspective of the countries of the West Balkans.
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.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his FYROM counterpart Zoran Zaev are to meet in Sofia on May 17, on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans Summit, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in the name dispute Matthew Nimetz announced on Saturday.