NO NEW PROPOSAL FOR SOLUTION TO NAME DISPUTE
admin1 – June 24, 2009 – 11:59am

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UN mediator Matthew Nimetz did not present a new proposal for solution to the name dispute at the new round of talks in Geneva on Monday. He did stress, however, that the time had come for the talks to intensify and for a compromise to be reached. Nimetz did not reveal details about the two-hour-long meeting with Macedonia’s representative Zoran Jolevski and Greece’s representative Adamantios Vassilakis in the United Nations Office at Geneva. He just stated briefly after the meeting that they identified the areas that hampered the talks so far, Utrinski Vesnik reports.
“We didn’t make any progress; but I didn’t expect us to make progress anyway,” Nimetz stressed, explaining, “The issue is well known and there are no new proposals. However, we insist on some of the issues that are blocking an agreement”.
Nimetz noted that the reason why there are no new moments in the talks is that the two sides remain deeply entrenched in their positions. But he expressed hope that these positions could be changed. “I think that the time has come for us to resolve this issue as soon as possible. This is the aim of my visit to the region – to see whether a solution is possible,” the UN mediator said.