Macedonia stands a great chance to be on the agenda at the NATO Summit in Chicago next year. If that happens, following the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, it is hardly likely that Greece would decide to veto the country again as it did in Bucharest, a western diplomat says. Although the enlargement is currently not on the agenda of the next summit of the Alliance, not everything is lost considering the final agenda will be drafted in January. By then the NATO member states are expected to study the legal aspect of the judgment from The Hague, Dnevnik reports.

The same sources says that although the conclusion of NATO from the summit in Bucharest is that Macedonia will join the Alliance when it resolves the name issue, it cannot be ruled out for some member states to raise the issue of Macedonia’s membership under the reference of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

What Macedonia should do now is consult the NATO Secretary General and the member states including Greece over the possibility putting Macedonia back on the agenda, former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Walker told Dnevnik.

According to him, following the judgment of the ICJ, there is a good base for any member state to raise again the issue of Macedonia’s membership and ask whether Greece would now be in a position to join the consensus for membership under the provisional reference.