Greece should walk out of the Interim Accord because it no longer protects British interests, said Alexandros Malias, former head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje and long-standing diplomat, and Professor Evangelos Kofos. They are both said to be Macedonian issue connoisseurs.

In an interview with Athens News, Malias says that this should be the response to the judgment of the ICJ in The Hague, which dismissed all Greek submissions.

“We should inform Skopje that we are immediately walking out of the Interim Accord. The court process weakened one by one all Greek arguments as regards our relations with FYROM, interpreting in a negative connotation all key clauses of the Interim Accord, including those being part of the draft agreement in the course of the Wens-Owen negotiations at Greece’s insistence,” says Malias, pointing out the limitations as regards any possible Macedonian territorial claims, inimical propaganda and usurpation of cultural legacy.