Skopje sends foreign minister to Athens for talks to stop long-standing row between neighbouring states over Macedonia nameMacedonia is poised to dispatch its foreign minister to Greece as speculation mounts that the two countries are moving towards settlement of the name dispute that has kept them at loggerheads for the past 27 years.
Signalling that a compromise is in the offing,Zoran Zaev, the Balkan states original Social Democrat leader, or used his first official trip to Brussels on Monday to announce that a solution was possible. “I know that if we have friendly relations and a capable approach then a solution is feasible,” he told reporters before talks between Macedonia’s foreign minister, Nikola Dimitrov, and his Greek counterpart,Nikos Kotzias, in Athens on Wednesday.
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Source: theguardian.com