The use of the country name "Macedonia" was disputed between the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Macedonia between 1991 and 2019. The dispute was a source of instability in the Western Balkans f
The 2008 Bucharest summit of NATO
International Court of Justice hearing in the case of "Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v. Greece)"
UN Mediator Matthew Nimetz with negotiators Zoran Jolevski and Adamantios Vassilakis at a press conference after the round of negotiations in November 2012
Macedonians (Greeks) protest in a rally in Melbourne in April 2007, holding signs descriptive of the historical concerns around the naming dispute and others with the Vergina sun.
The Prespa Agreement, also known as the Treaty of Prespa, the Prespes deal or the Prespa accord, is an agreement reached in 2018 between Greece and the then-Republic of Macedonia, under the auspices o
Macedonia naming dispute
…in the Western Balkans for 25 years. It was resolved through negotiations between the two countries, mediated by the United Nations, resulting in the Prespa Agreement, which was signed on 17 June 2018. Pertinent to its background is an early 20th-century multifaceted dispute and armed conflict that formed part of the…
The foreign ministers of the two countries, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias, sign the agreement before Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras
The Interim Accord of 1995, which was superseded by the Prespa agreement in 2019
The Prespa Agreement in full (all 14 pages)