Σουηδός πρεσβευτής στα Σκόπια: Η αλλαγή εξουσίας στην Ελλάδα είναι μια θετική εξέλιξη για τις διαπραγματεύσεις για το όνομα (της πΓΔΜ)

Διαφαίνεται ένα αισιόδοξο κλίμα στα Σκόπια ενόψει του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου για την προώθηση των συνομιλιών για το όνομα της πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβικής Δημοκρατίας της Μακεδονίας. Οι έξι εβδομάδες που απομένουν για τη συνεδρίαση αυτή, τονίζονται στο σχετικό δημοσίευμα, ως πολύ σημαντικές, και για το όνομα αλλά και για την έναρξη των ενταξιακών συνομιλιών της πΓΔΜ.

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EU Urges FYROMacedonia To Speed Name Talks
Skopje - Sinisa-Jakov Marusic

Erwan Fouere. Photo by Robert Atanasovski

FYROMacedonia has six weeks and a day, till the EU Council meets, to promote its name talks with Greece and secure a date for the start of EU accession talks, bloc representatives in the country say.
“Take advantage of every hour, every day, every week and put maximum efforts into finding a solution to the dispute with Greece until December,” the EU ambassador to "Macedonia", Erwan Fouere, told a session of "Macedonia’s" National Council for European Integration onThursday.

The Swedish ambassador to "Macedonia", Lars Freden, concurred in his own comments on the December EU Council meeting. Sweden currently holds the EU's rotating PresidencyReferring to this month’s positive European Commission, EC, report, which recommended the start of accession talks, and the change in power in Greece, which is seen as a positive for the name negotiations, Fouere said that “we now have a positive atmosphere that has to continue, and this is the best moment to find a final solution for the row with Greece”.

The EC report's support for "Macedonia's" EU integration talks was tempered by the authors' advising Skopje to solve the spat with Greece as soon as possible.Last year, Athens blocked Skopje’s NATO accession and threatened a second veto on "Macedonia's" EU accession process if the country refused to change its name, Republic of "Macedonia".

Athens believes this appellation implies that Skopje is making territorial claims on the northern Greek province of Macedonia.So far, the authorities in Skopje have sufficed by reiterating that they remain commited to UN-sponsored talks on the issue. However, some local observers say that more positive moves

balkan in sight