Promoting good-neighborly relations between Macedonia and Greece through the proposed framework of the European Commission for conducting parallel name issue talks and EU membership negotiations, creating a balanced framework for propelling name issue talks with the mediation of Matthew Nimetz and launching intensive communication between Skopje and Athens at a diplomatic and political level are the proposals that Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki included in his response to the Greek draft memorandum of understanding provided to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday afternoon. The letter was handed to Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Kourkoulas by Sasko Stefkov, Macedonian Ambassador to Athens, at a meeting Monday.

Exactly a month since Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos sent the document to Skopje, Macedonia sent back a principled reply, which, as announced, invokes the Interim Accord of 1995, the UN Security Council Resolutions and the Judgment of the International Court of Justice. Minister Poposki reminds his Greek counterpart that the framework of the process had been established with these documents.