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FYROM Asks Greek FM Kotzias to Support its EU and NATO bids

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) called on Greece to recognise the “new reality” in the country and support its bid to join the European Union and NATO, a move that would require overcoming the row over the country’s name.
Greece has vetoed the ex-Yugoslav republic’s attempts to join the two bodies because of a 25-year-old dispute over the name Macedonia, which is a Greek province with a rich Greek history.
The country’s new government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, which took over in May, pledged to speed up the process of joining NATO and EU, for which good neighbourly relations are set as one of the preconditions.
“We hope that Greece will recognise the new reality in [FYROM] and our honest wish for friendship. We expect and we hope for help and support for European integration,” FYROM’s foreign minister, Nikola Dimitrov said after meeting Greek foreign minister Nikos Kotzias.
It was the second meeting between the two foreign ministers since May.
“We spoke about the process, how it will be going, the methods and modalities, but we also spoke about what exactly are the interests and worries on both sides,” Dimitrov said.
Kotzias said Greece would be ready to support Macedonia’s bid to join EU and NATO, but only once all pre-conditions for membership are met. He did not elaborate.

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