NATO LEADERS TO DECIDE OVER MACEDONIA'S ACCESSION
National.
Heads of states and governments of the 26 NATO member-states should decide on Thursday whether Macedonia and the other two Adriatic Group countries - Albania and Croatia - would become part of the NATO family.
According to the Summit's agenda, the enlargement debate should begin at the working dinner of Alliance leaders on April 2. The formal debate the accession of Macedonia, Albania and Croatia should be in the focus of the meeting of the North-Atlantic Council on April 3, at which the heads of states and governments of 26 NATO member-states should decide over the enlargement.
Macedonia, Albania and Croatia claim they have met standards and deserve an invitation, an opinion confirmed by NATO officials and member-states. Such promise was given to them in the final document at the last Riga summit, which read "NATO intends to invite countries that meet standards at the following summit in 2008".
The only obstacle for Macedonia is Greece's threat to impose a veto if a mutually acceptable solution to the name dispute is not found.
Macedonian authorities claim the name dispute is a bilateral issue that should not influence the country's Euro-Atlantic integration. A possible Greek veto is assessed as a precedent that would harm not only Macedonia, but also Greece, the region, and the Alliance itself.
According to information from countries' media, intensive efforts for compromise, assisted by the U.S. administration, resume.
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NATO LEADERS DECIDE....Veto
and your "friend" George W. Bush
is leaving in 5 months!!!!
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Anonymous |
13:25
"We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians."
Quote from FYROM'S President Mr. Kiro Gligorov.
(from the Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe,
February 26, 1992, p. 35. )
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13:30
22 January 1999: FYROM'S Ambassador in Washington, Mrs. Ljubica Acevshka, gave a speech on the present situation in the Balkans. At the end of her speech answering questions Mrs. Acevshka said:
"We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great." "Greece is FYROM'S second largest trading partner, and its number one investor. Instead of opting for war, we have chosen the mediation of the United Nations, with talks on the ambassadorial level under Mr. Vance and Mr. Nimitz." In reply to another question about the ethnic origin of the people of FYROM, Ambassador Achevska stated that "we are Slavs and we speak a Slav language."
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13:35
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