Nikos Kotzias

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday said it would be a great victory to put a designation before the term "Macedonia" in the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Tsipras spoke after a meeting with Thessaloniki Mayor...

Greece has called on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to be realistic and prepared for compromises on the eve of trilateral negotiations on the name that are scheduled to take place Thursday and Friday at UN headquarters...

The foreign ministers of eight central European and Balkan EU countries meeting in Greece have called for a more democratic and socially-just Europe. Friday's meetings in Sounio, south of Athens, bring together ministers from the Visegrad Group -- Poland, the...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his FYROM counterpart Nikola Dimitrov said on Friday that progress has been made during recent talks but there is no agreement yet. The two officials met in Thessaloniki in the context of a trilateral...

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has warned Turkey it could lose a war in the Aegean, saying "Greece is not Afrin". In an interview with SKAI TV aired on Tuesday night, Kotzias said Ankara had realized that the cost of an Aegean...

The name issue with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was discussed in the NATO meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, with Greece insisting on a erga omnes name. FYROM's accession to NATO is dependent on Greece's acceptance of the name,...

Talks between the Greek and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) foreign ministers over the naming issue have failed to produce the results necessary to justify a meeting between the countries' prime ministers, Skopje PM Zoran Zaev said on Monday. Greek Foreign Minister...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) counterpart Nikola Dimitrov are to continue negotiations over the Balkan state's name amid serious obstacles. Greece insists that FYROM should change parts of its constitution which contain...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has said that he believes there is no alternative to peace and peaceful coexistence with Turkey, and he does not consider war between the two countries inevitable. Kotzias made relevant statements in an interview with...

"We are Macedonians. We speak the Macedonian language", said the Foreign Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, on Tuesday. The FYROM official made the statement two days before the meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias...