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Greek Foreign Minister Kotzias to Visit the United States Next Week

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is due to depart for Washington on Sunday, where he will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday. The Greek Minister is scheduled to stay in Washington until next Thursday and have...

No Outcome After UN Mediator's Meeting with Greek and FYROM Representatives

“We did not achieve any progress.” This is how United Nations’ special mediator Matthew Nimetz described the meeting held earlier on Wednesday in New York between Greek and FYROM representatives over the long-lasting Macedonia naming dispute. With this phrase,...

UN Urges for Solution on FYROM Name Dispute

Matthew Nimetz, the United Nations mediator in the dispute between Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) met with FYROM Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in Skopje.  "We have been at this for a long time and I do think...

Nimetz Tries Again To Settle FYROM Name Fight

United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz is to visit Athens and Skopje at the beginning of July to try yet again to settle a dispute over what to call the Former Yugoslav Republic of Yugoslavia (FYROM), which identifies itself as...

Greece Proposes "Slavo-Albanian Macedonia" for FYROM?

FYROM's newspaper Dnevnik writes that the proposal has been submitted to Matthew Nimetz by Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis. The representative of Greece in New York , Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, is reported to have suggested the name "Slavo-Albanian Macedonia"  for FYROM, to the Special...

FYROM Ready for Accession Talks, EU Commission Report Finds; Urges Action on Name Dispute

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed the start of accession talks with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) for the fifth time, while noting the need to persevere with efforts to find a mutually acceptable solution to the...

US Urges FYROM To End Name Dispute

The United States is again pressing leaders in FYROM to intensify their efforts to resolve differences with Greece over what name to call itself, a dispute that's been going on for two decades with virtually no progress. “The US government...

UN Envoy Offers New FYROM Name

Officials from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) said they expect United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz on April 16 to put forward a compromise name solution that would be acceptable to Greece and end two decades of bickering,...

UN Mediator Matthew Nimetz Visits Athens

The UN Mediator on the name dispute between Greece and FYROM, Matthew Nimetz, is visiting Athens today after having visited the neighboring country involved in the dispute. At 13:30 the UN representative will have a lunch meeting with the Greek...

Greek and FYROM Officials to Meet with UN Mediator Nimetz in NY

Ambassador Nimetz will initially meet with both countries'  representatives separately and will seek to develop a mutually acceptable approach to re-invigorate the talks and to make meaningful progress toward resolving the 'name' issue, UN press service said on Tuesday. The...