MACEDONIA PAYING WITH PRAGMATISM IN NAME ISSUE
admin1 – September 14, 2010 – 12:54pm

Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki referred to Greece’s conduct as nationalistic whim, adding that Macedonia made too many concessions and could no longer pay the price of that country’s irrational conduct. That was Minister Milososki’s response to the question of whether Macedonia was going to take the example of Serbia, which renounced 15 percent of its territory for the European integration, making a concession regarding the name issue that would unblock the European Union accession talks.

“That is a question that people should answer,” Milososki said and added that Macedonia made a number of concessions so far to help itself progress and paid too much to satisfy Athens’s national, political and nationalistic whim. It is time both parties approached the resolution of the issue with the same will to attain the goal, he said adding that the session of the General Assembly of the UN was a good opportunity for such a dialogue.

Macedonia is not the one that sets obstacles to the resolution, Minister Milososki said, adding that a solution is impossible if it is imposed. Asked whether there was an encouraging message from the 2-day meetings in Brussels, Milososki replied that he expected the report on Macedonia to remain positive and that the obstacle to reaching the decision for talks remained.