MACEDONIAN DIPLOMACY LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP
admin1 – September 4, 2012 – 12:53pm

The Macedonian diplomacy is launching a new offensive with the NATO member states so Macedonia can be extended sooner an invitation for membership of the Alliance, which is still blocked by Greece despite the Judgment of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.  Four months have passed since the NATO Summit in Chicago and still no progress has been made regarding this issue, as the resolution of the dispute remains to be the only unmet condition standing in Macedonia’s way of joining the North-Atlantic Alliance. The objective of the Macedonian diplomatic initiative is making sure the Judgment of The Hague is honored and obtaining a clear position to this issue from every NATO member state, especially bearing in mind that NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in December of last year, only a few hours after the Judgment was passed, that the allies had reached an agreement that the Judgment had no bearing on their decision from the Summit in Bucharest, Nova Makedonija has learned from diplomatic sources.