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- Title
THE ITINERANCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE GOAL OF NATO AND EU MEMBERSHIP.
- Authors
MEMETAJ, Arlinda
- Abstract
The main challenge of the foreign policy of the Republic of Macedonia was its recognition of international politics and membership in all the most important international non-governmental organizations, such as the UN, the EU, NATO etc. To achieve this goal, it had to walk the hard way, as there was an express opposition from the Republic of Greece for the recognition of the Republic of Macedonia under her constitutional name. The Republic of Macedonia was obliged to accept the provisional reference and be called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as a prerequisite for its accession to the UN system. But with this reference was also recognized by the EU member states, besides having a positive opinion from the Badinter Commission for Macedonia. This obstruction that started on the entry of RM into international organizations did not end with conditional acceptance. Suggest a Greece, which had previously agreed to negotiate with the name RM within the UN (negotiations were one of the additional conditions foreseen for conditional access to the UN with a temporary reference), conditioned this by seeking the Republic of Macedonia to renounce the state-owned flag and make additional amendments to its Constitution. This crisis was overcome by the signing of the Interim Agreement, which opened the process of opening this road of RM. In this regard, this paper highlights, in particular, the close connection of this issue to the state of affairs in domestic politics for each period of time separately. Based on the key hypothesis, at the end of this paper, the emphasis is on the Prespa Agreement signed long ago, in June 2018, which is the ultimate solution to the ongoing process of negotiations between Greece and Macedonia, based on to which agreement this conclusion was reached: Negotiations have been completed, and hence the new name of the Republic of Macedonia will be "the Republic of North Macedonia", a Macedonian citizen/citizen of the Republic of Macedonia, the Macedonian language. This paper concludes with a series of conclusions that have been put forward in the context of the referendum held for the Prespa Accord and which "alarm" about the real risks and the current state of affairs in the country in which there is no consensus or between political actors in the state or between the ordinary public.
- Publication
Vizione, 2018, Issue 31, p221
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article