Mitsotakis recalled that the Prespa Agreement provides for a single name for overall use, not a "dual formula".
"We can't go on like this. Suppose he continues this rhetoric from the moment he takes office. In that case, the Prime Minister of North Macedonia will find himself in a very awkward position when we meet at the NATO summit."
This is what Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said regarding the position of future Macedonian Prime Minister and leader of VRMO-DPMNE Hristiyan Mitskoski on the use of the name "Macedonia", BGNES reported.
The Greek prime minister stressed that the dispute could create problems in Skopje's relations with Greece, NATO and the EU.
He reminded that the issue will be raised at the NATO Summit in the first half of July in Washington.
"Skopje must understand that it cannot play with Athens on such a matter, because if the country was pursuing a dual name, the matter would have been closed many years ago. Skopje entered NATO precisely through the Agreement, which has its problems but defined one name for all. If this is contested, then let North Macedonia know that it will have major problems not only in its bilateral relations with Greece but also in its relations both in NATO and with the European Union, which it has the ambition to become a member of at some point Mitsotakis told the Greek radio "Real".
BGNES reminds that the Prespa Treaty was signed on June 17, 2018, in the village of Nivitsi on the shore of the Great Prespa Lake. The agreement was concluded by the foreign ministers of both countries, Nikos Kodzias and Nikola Dimitrov, in the presence of Prime Ministers Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev. The agreement ended the long-standing dispute over Macedonia's name between the authorities in Skopje and Athens. | BGNES
