Macedonia-Greece Name Agreement Expected to Be Signed Tomorrow Morning

On Sunday at 10 o'clock and 30 local time, at the Greek side Prespa, under the supervision of key international diplomats, an agreement ending the 25-year name dispute between Macedonia and Greece will be signed.

The foreign ministers of the two countries Dimitrov and Kocias will sign in the text, which consists of 20 articles, with which Macedonia is changed to the Republic of Northern Macedonia. Witnesses in this event will be UN mediator for the name issue Matthew Nimic, European Union High Representative Federica Mogerini, Enlargemental Euro-commere Johannes Han and Rosemary Di Carlo, UN Deputy Secretary General Antonio Guteresh.

Local Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said that tomorrow is a historic day and that with this agreement reached, the country's Euro-Atlantic path is eased. He calls opposition policies that openly oppose the agreement reached harmful.

We have forces trying for the future and they want to move forward, but we also have forces that try to pull us back into the past. We cannot change the past while the future is in our hands. I think it's a big step and we brag about the deal reached for friendship with Bulgaria. Now what remains is the last open issue. In a way, a phase of questions ends and it will be very important that this solution open the doors to the EU and NATO. In addition to building friendship with Greece, the Macedonian motives are these, to open the doors of integration”, Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Dimitrov stated.

Prime Minister Zaev, yesterday from his birthplace, suggested that with the signing of the agreement with Greece, the Balkans send a positive signal west that political maturity has been achieved and that the entire region must be part of NATO and the European Union.

We will sign the deal on Sunday. However, this will convey a friendly political message. I am glad that all of this happens in a period when the Balkans lead with the European Union, or more precisely said Bulgaria leads the Union. I feel very lucky that even Western Europe sent signals to the “European Swan”, so that we are entitled to be part of Europe”, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said.

In Macedonia's official delegation, in addition to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Dimitrov, Deputy Prime Ministers Bujar Osmani, Radmila Sekerinska and Oliver Spasovski are also expected to be. The ratification law is scheduled to be passed at the government session Monday at 0900, after which it will be sent to the Assembly.