UN mediator Matthew Nimetz presented a new proposal for the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, U.S. State Department Spokesman Tom Casey said yesterday, the Macedonian electronic media report. Casey stressed that the United States hopes that this proposal could be used as a basis for a final agreement between the two countries. The United States will support any proposal that will be acceptable to both countries, he said.

Athens daily Ethnos reports that the United Nations did not confirm Casey’s statement. A source from the Greek diplomatic mission to the UN said for this daily that Athens had not received any new proposal.