FYROM: Greece takes step forward in name dispute

Skopje. Greece has cornered Macedonia, but the government in Skopje does not want to understand that the name dispute cannot be solved at a meeting with UN mediator Mathew Nimirz, but at another level, Slavo Macedonian Utrinski Vesnik daily comments.

The newspaper says that Athens took a step forward in the row through Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas’s statement that Greece is prepared to accept the name Northern Macedonia, proving it is a constructive side.

“In the recent weeks it was proven that silence is not always good,” the daily writes, noting Droutsas did what European diplomats had been advising FYROM for a long time – to propose a solution to the name dispute publicly.