Awaiting responses from FYROM

Athens is considering the «cloudy» points of the proposal

Antoniou of Doras

The official response in Skopje on the new proposal of the special mediator on the issue of the name, Matthew Nimits, which was not until late yesterday, expects Athens. As reported diplomatic sources can not be meaningful assessment as to whether the new proposal is likely to lead ultimately to a solution, if not record the intentions of Skopje. At the same time, in Athens does not seem to emerge consideration as the president of PASOK George Papandreou yesterday dismissed the new proposal.

In relation to Skopje, a crucial question remains whether the political leadership of FYROM will continue to appear divided or will adopt a common position. The delayed reaction from the Skopje attributed to the fact that the internal dominated the news yesterday the issue of Kosovo, which tabled a resolution in the House of FYROM the two Albanian parties, calling on the government to proceed with the recognition. The issue of the name seems to have been involved in this issue as one of the parameters for delaying the recognition that Pristina is not bound for parallel recognition of the constitutional name of Macedonia. The negotiators in Skopje, however, returned yesterday from New York and is a matter of time that the first reactions.

The Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gkrouefski, announced last week by convening a meeting of heads of political parties, to inform them before placed in public. The informal reactions, as recorded by journalists of the neighboring country, seems to focus on insistence on the issue of ethnicity and language, which, as they say, should be properly identified as «Macedonian», as this point, consider it non-negotiable. There are informal reactions to the proposal to indicate the phrase in passports «citizens of the Republic of Northern Macedonia».

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