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ICJ Decides Against Greece for Objecting FYROM’s NATO Membership

On December 5, the Internation Court of Justice in Hague issued its verdict on whether Greece violated the Interim Accord, a treaty signed by Greece and Fyrom in 1995, by objecting Fyrom’s accession process into NATO in 2008. However, this verdict does not resolve the dispute over the name of FYROM, which adopted the name [...]

FYROM Economy Minister Turned Mobster on Screen

FYROM Economy Minister Valon Saraqini is playing the role of an Albanian mafia boss in a Greek-FYROM movie. The movie of Greek director Menelaos Karamargiolis “Just Another Confused Elephant” is expected on the big screen in 2012. In it, Macedonia’s Economy Minister Valon Saraqini, an ethnic Albanian, is in the role of an Albanian mafia [...]

FYROM Relies on Greek Government to Fix Name Issue

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia hopes that the newly appointed Greek government will be ready to put an end to the longtime dispute over the use of the name Macedonia the two countries have. “I believe that the new Greek national unity government can undertake a process of unblocking the name dispute,” Foreign Minister [...]

FYROM’s Name Dispute With Greece Left Aside Due to Rapid Developments

Rapid developments in the financial and political status of Greece within the past few months have led to the postponement of the solution of the name dispute between the two neighboring countries, stated Nicola Gruevski during his interview to local Utrinski Vesnik news agency on the occasion of his 100th day of governance as FYROM’s [...]