Agreement on Macedonia to go to parliament in January

October 2018

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his German counterpart Heiko Maas agreed during their meeting in Athens on Thursday that the Agreement signed by Athens and Skopje was an "historic opportunity" for a solution to the name dispute and was "forward-looking," promoting the security and development of the Balkans and Europe.

The Greek foreign minister expressed his conviction that the agreement will be supported by voters in the upcoming referendum in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) with the required turnout, estimating that the process of changing the neighboring country’s constitution will be completed by mid-January 2019.

Following this, the agreement would be submitted to the Greek parliament for ratification, along with the ratification of NATO’s decision to grant FYROM membership, Kotzias added.