During today\u2019s ( Sunday) swearing-in ceremony in Parliament, and in spite of the fact that the official text of the oath that was read out to her referred to the country as \u201c North Macedonia,\u201d the new President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, chose to call her country \u201c Macedonia.\u201d
\nThis act is a flagrant violation of the Prespa Agreement and the Constitution of our neighbouring country, which has been brought into line with North Macedonia\u2019s international obligations. In spite of the objections it voiced as an opposition party during the ratification of the Prespa Agreement, the current Greek government respected as ratified the international agreement, which overrides any other provision of law.
\nIn this context, Greece categorically states that further progress in its bilateral relations with North Macedonia, as well as progress in the latter\u2019s European course, depends upon the full implementation of the Prespa Agreement and principally the use of the country\u2019s constitutional name.
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During the swearing-in ceremony in Parliament, the new President of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, referred to her country as “Macedonia” instead of “North Macedonia.” Greece insists that progress in bilateral relations and North Macedonia’s European course depends on the full implementation of the Prespa Agreement, including the use of the country’s constitutional name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3038,1393,1275,6694,415,747,9747,187,4826,5679,9748,7215,1429,1799,5328,4843,9749,4652,9750,3840,3522,5667,170,18],"class_list":["post-11565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-agreement","tag-bilateral-relations","tag-ceremony","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-greece","tag-greek-foreign-ministry","tag-international","tag-international-obligations","tag-law","tag-north-macedonia","tag-objections","tag-opposition-party","tag-parliament","tag-party","tag-president","tag-president-of-north-macedonia","tag-president-of-the-republic","tag-prespa-agreement","tag-progress","tag-relations","tag-swearing-in-ceremony","tag-violation","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n