The Macedonia-Greece name issue became for a moment part of this year’s security conference in Munich when Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov talked in his address Saturday about the Greek blocks of Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, Utrinski vesnik reports. President Ivanov (officially presented as Macedonian president) dedicated half of his 15-minute address in the panel discussion on the future of the European and global security to the name issue. He said that Athens presented the name dispute as a security issue with absurd arguments and that all Greek governments deluded the international public, arguing that Macedonia had territorial claims.

Greek Ambassador to Berlin Dimitrios Kypreos, a little theatrically, to make a stronger impression, accused President Ivanov of “monopolizing the collective security speech with the name issue in the same way you want to monopolize the name. If someone starts thinking that the fall of the iron curtain upset Greece, then we are entering an irrational mental construction”.