A revised strategy will be developed for the resolution of the name dispute between Greece and FYROM according to Matthew Nimetz, the United Nations Special Representative handling the issue.
Nimetz said there is a ‘new impetus’ referring to the new Skopje government’s eagerness to kickstart its foreign policy afresh and his recent talks with both Skopje and Athens suggesting a new momentum.
According to Nimitz, following several years of parliamentary deadlock in FYROM the new government in Skopje is "eager to reactivate its foreign policy in the region and obviously the name issue is an important impediment to the path to European integration, to NATO membership. So this is a high issue on their agenda and therefore he thinks here is a new impetus."
After his recent trips to meet with government officials in both Skopje and Athens, Nimitz is developing a new game plan for moving forward on the naming dispute.
