US Congress supports Greece on FYROM’s name issue

130 Members of Congress have so far co-sponsored Resolutions H.356 and S.300, expressing the sense of the Senate / House of Representatives that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) should stop the utilization of materials that violate provisions of the United Nations-brokered Interim Agreement between the FYROM and Greece regarding ‘‘hostile activities or propaganda’’ and should work with the United Nations and Greece to achieve longstanding United States and United Nations policy goals of finding a mutually-acceptable official name for the FYROM.

Greek-American Organizations thank the 130 Members of the Congress who have co-sponsored the Resolutions H.356/S.300 ("The Hill" and "Politico", September 23, 2008)

Op-Ed by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) - The Washington Times, September 24, 2008

Statement of Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Yannis Valinakis in the Athens daily “Eleftheros Tipos” regarding FYROM 13 October, 2008

The submission on the part of Mr. Nimetz of a new set of ideas to Athens and Skopje is for us yet another opportunity to state once again our sincere wish to reach a definitive solution on the name issue. We want to reach this solution in a mutually acceptable manner, in a way that doesn't produce winners or losers.

It is within this framework that we are evaluating carefully and constructively this new set of ideas put forward by the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the Greece-FYROM talks. We will formulate our answer in the coming period. The government immediately took an initiative to open a round of informative meetings with all of the country's political parties. Seeking national consensus on such an important issue is and always will be our strategic choice.

At the present stage, and given that our positions – as they have been repeatedly stated – still fully stand, what I would like to stress once again is that Greece is waiting for Skopje to abandon its barren intransigence.