Macedonian President Urges Name Row Compromise With Greece
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AFP)--Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski on Thursday called for a compromise to be found with Greece over a 17-year-old name dispute that has blocked his country's European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization integration.
"We should try to solve and not to delay the dispute with Greece," Crvenkovski said in an annual address to parliament.
"We should find a compromise that will protect our national identity, to defend the name of our nation and our language as Macedonian, but at the same time to open doors to enter into NATO and the E.U.," he said.
Greece and Macedonia have been in dispute over the right to the name Macedonia - which is shared by a northern Greek province - since the former Yugoslav republic proclaimed independence in 1991.
In April, Greece used its veto to block an invitation for Skopje to join NATO and has been threatening to prevent Macedonia's integration into the E.U.
"There is no serious alternative to Macedonia's future other than integrating into NATO and the E.U.," Crvenkovski said.
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AFP)--Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski on Thursday called for a compromise to be found with Greece over a 17-year-old name dispute that has blocked his country's European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization integration.
"We should try to solve and not to delay the dispute with Greece," Crvenkovski said in an annual address to parliament.
"We should find a compromise that will protect our national identity, to defend the name of our nation and our language as Macedonian, but at the same time to open doors to enter into NATO and the E.U.," he said.
Greece and Macedonia have been in dispute over the right to the name Macedonia - which is shared by a northern Greek province - since the former Yugoslav republic proclaimed independence in 1991.
In April, Greece used its veto to block an invitation for Skopje to join NATO and has been threatening to prevent Macedonia's integration into the E.U.
"There is no serious alternative to Macedonia's future other than integrating into NATO and the E.U.," Crvenkovski said.
The paragraph highlighted in red is most interesting, I would have said it the other way around minus the word 'compromise' because there is nothing to compromise, this dog of Macedonia impersonating a president is like a whining imbecile experiencing wierd outbursts as he is being dragged to the asylum, проклет да останиш.
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