New Age of Macedonian-Greece Co-operation

The release that the Macedonian side has made about the Greek requirement to change the constitution of the state, experts see it as a more optimistic solution that could be reached because this concession enables Macedonia to integrate into NATO and the EU.

Macedonia's first Foreign Affairs Minister, Denko Malevski, after state independence in an interview for Radio Free Europe, says that after carefully reviewing the agreement in question, it finds the issue of Macedonians' identity remains guaranteed.

Malevski says how the diplomat has learned an important issue -- that the state should use interest waves by successfully swimming in them.

The “should be used very wisely by international attention, which is focused on Macedonia and ultimately as a state to become part of international institutions, part of the European family, modern world”.

I think that with this agreement only to pave the way for the country's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures opens and a new page of friendship and co-operation here in the Balkans, which is of particular importance for the perspective of all countries in the region”, Denko Malevski says.

Malevski, commenting on the position of Macedonian President Djordje Ivanov not to ratify the agreement, says his decision understands “as refusing to cancel a wrong policy of the past government led by the VMRO DPMNE from which it comes and the president himself -- politics which has been promoted the last decade between the two neighbouring countries, and not as the decision to protect state interests”.

Albanian experts say that of particular importance to Albanians is that with this agreement, only the country opens more perspectives to the integration plan, with the state's relocation as “North Macedonia” becoming a clear separation of state from Macedonian nationality.

Edim Sinani from the Centre for International Relations and Balkan Studies, for Radio Free Europe, says that Albanians' intrepid demand for the appointment of institutions or the removal of Macedonian prefixes by defining the exclusiveness of belonging only to Macedonians, now becomes a reality not as a result of the will of the Macedonian authorities, but as a result of insisting on the Greek side for them to be renamed as clearly highlighted in the agreement.

I think more is the insistence of the Greek side that”erga omnes” be applied to all the issues involved here and the re-appointed of state and public institutions.

I think the Albanian political factor is in the upper composition among them. I don't think there are wise people who have vision to realize the demands of Albanians” says Sinan.

Otherwise, Macedonia's Government on its official website on Thursday evening has published the agreement consisting of preamble, 3 parts and executive provisions, with a total of 20 articles, the Final Agreement on Selecting the Differences Described at Resolution 817 (1993) and 845 (1993) at the United Nations Security Council, for the Prevention of the 1995 International Agreement View, as well as the Set of Strategic Partnerships between Pal1x>

After reaching the Macedonia-Greece agreement, during the week we are leaving behind the Macedonian government authorities have stressed that they hope that in late June Macedonia will receive positive recommendation from Brussels for the start of the country's EU membership talks. / REL