Greek officials believe that the Albanian pressure is going to help resolve the name issue, which is wrong. It is with these words that a part of the Greek public explains why the authorities in Athens prefer meeting Albanian politicians from Macedonia while refusing meetings at the highest level, with Macedonian government officials, Dnevnik reports.

The first step in this regard was made by Teuta Arifi, former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, when she met Theodoros Pangalos, Greek Deputy Prime Minister at the time, in Athens, while her successor Fatmir Besimi is set to meet Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens Wednesday. According to Greek diplomatic sources, the meeting is taking place at the Macedonia deputy prime minister’s request.

“Besimi expressed a wish and a readiness for a meeting and Avramopoulos accepted it. The meetings of the representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs at which concrete issues of the process of European integration were discussed resulted from the meeting between Arifi and Pangalos,” the same sources say.