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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-04-18
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[01] Greece on FYROM 'note verbale'
[01] Greece on FYROM 'note verbale'
Foreign ministry spokesman George Koumoutsakos said late Thursday
that a note verbale lodged earlier in the evening by FYROM with the
head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje, Ambassador Alexandra
Papadopoulou -- over the fact that no invitation for membership was
extended to FYROM at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest -- although
technically addressed to Greece, was in essence addressed to the
entire NATO alliance and the Joint Communiqué unanimously adopted
in Bucharest.
Koumoutsakos pointed out that the note verbale was lodged "15 days
after the NATO Summit in Bucharest, and just 4 days after the
proclamation of (early general) elections in the neighboring
country".
"In the midst, therefore, of the pre-election period, a note verbale
is lodged, technically with Greece, but in essence addressed to the
Alliance as a whole and the Joint Communiqué that was unanimously
adopted in Bucharest," Koumoutsakos stressed, replying to a question
on a late-night political program on NET television station.
FYROM deputy foreign minister Zoran Petrov called Papadopoulou to
the foreign ministry on Thursday night, to lodge a note verbale over
"Greece's hindrance" of the extension of an invitation to FYROM for
NATO membership at the alliance summit in Bucharest, claiming that
in doing so, Greece was in violation of Article 11 of the Interim
Agreement signed between the two countries in 1995.
Caption:ANA-MPA file photo of Foreign Ministry spokesman George
Koumoutsakos
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