-    The dispute between Greece and Turkey for determining the continental ridge west of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea is the example that Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov bore in mind when he told NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels Wednesday that Macedonia could join NATO and the EU without having resolved the dispute with Greece. Ivanov added that an exception had been made exactly with Macedonia’s southern neighbor. This example shows how contradictory Greece is considering that in its dispute with Turkey, it insists on the international law and seeks protection from the International Court of Justice in the The Hague, the same Court whose decision regarding the name issue with Macedonia it refuses to recognize and honor. Greece joined the EU in 1981, eight years of the outbreak of its dispute with Turkey.