Matthew Nimetz, the UN envoy in charge of the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, is wrapping up May 2 the next round of talks on the issue in New York with little headway made on the issue, Macedonian media reported on May 2.
In the past four days, Nimetz held individual talks with Macedonian negotiator Nikola Dimitrov and his Greek counterpart Adamantios Vassilakis.
As expected, Nimetz did not come up with a new name proposal, rather prepared the ground for future negotiations, Macedonian media reported.
Nimetz refrained from going with a definitive proposal despite the Nato and the United States’ July 9 deadline to solve the issue. He added that such an offer would be made once it was acceptable for both parties.
The UN envoy is scheduled to hold another round of negotiations with the Macedonian and Greek authorities and could potentially visit Athens and Skopje again.
According to the modified negotiating strategy, which Greece approved a fortnight ago, Greece would not only try to economically pressure Macedonia, but would also try to “mine” talks with a request that the new name be used for the nation and language alike, Macedonian daily Vecer said.
Meanwhile, Greece blocked cash transfers to and from Macedonia. The freeze spans Western Union and National Bank of Greece cross-border transactions.
The two neighbours have been embroiled in a row over Macedonia’s name for the past 17 years. Athens insists that Skopje has appropriated the name of its northernmost province.
Comments by Peter - 17:28 03 May 2008 |
 | Republic of Macedonia must stop negotiating our identity forthwith.Greece never called Macedonia in Greece. They called it Northern Greece,or New Teritory as of 1913.Greece must stop this sharade in front of the world and admmit that there are Macedonians in Northern Greece that are distinct people and different from the Greeks.The Macedonian lanquage is older then the Greek.Greeks dont even understand the so called old Greek lanquage.Alexander the Great spoke Macedonian, that is why he told his general,what lanquage will he use to defend himself when he was accused of treason.Cant you tell the difference? |  |
Comments by Built for Speed - 16:16 05 May 2008 |
| "Peter" the "Makedonski" at it again I see. Give it a rest, nobody is buying your Skopaganda; in fact the world is laughing at you and only the US is only supporting your ragtag brethren purely to cause unrest in the Balkans to capitalise on the natural resources/commodities coming by way of the Caucasus etc.
You couldn't even answer what the term "Macedonia" means and what the Sun of Vergina symbolises among countless other questions any true Macedonian could answer, so cut the nonsense and learn something useful.
By your logic you're implying Alexander the Great was a Slav-how ridiculous, just like all that other laughable pseudo-scientific idiocy spewed by Donski and Stefov et.al.- and we all know how credible they are.
My word, how stupid are you? Seriously-you're Bulgarian in extraction and yet you have the temerity to spew hate-language against your own kin, at least the Bulgarians are aware of their identity and are proud of it. I guess Petko Slaveykov got it right by saying that you "Macedonists" (I use the term very lightly) have nothing to offer except for your insistence of your identity.
How very pathetic. | |
