Turkey sees Macedonia as a full-fledged member of NATO and Greece should let Macedonia call itself Macedonia and stop concerning itself with unimportant matters in the interest of the stability of the whole region,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the opening of the Office of the European Union in Istanbul, Turkey, at which Prime Minister Gruevski was invited, too.

Both prime ministers underlined that both countries’ goal was meeting the standards for joining the EU.

“Our countries know that on our way to the EU there can be rises and falls, as well as quick and slow steps,” Prime Minister Gruevski said.