Ernst Reichel, Germany’s special envoy for Southeast Europe, most probably had in mind the position of the Government, when he said during his visit to Macedonia last week that mediator Matthew Nimetz’s name proposal was acceptable to Macedonia and that it all now depended on Greece, Nova Makedonija reports.

This can be concluded from the statement of a BDI source for Nova Makedonija that apart from meeting Musa Xhaferi, Deputy Prime Minister for the Implementation of the Framework Agreement, and Ali Ahmeti and Zoran Zaev, leaders of BDI and SDSM, the German diplomat also met government officials from VMRO-DPMNE.

Last week, Reichel was in Skopje and in a statement for Alsat TV he said the authorities reassured him that they were very much interested in seeking out a solution to the name issue, that the options at the table were acceptable to them and that now it all depended on Greece’s readiness for a compromise.