Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has issued another warning to the new leadership of North Macedonia that failure to comply with the 2019 Prespa agreement with Greece will block its path to EU membership.
"When you pull the rope, you have to be ready to break it," Mitsotakis was quoted by Kathimerini as saying.
"If the (of North Macedonia) leadership deviates from the agreed course, the road to Europe will be closed," the prime minister added, stressing that "this road goes through Greece and through respect for international law".
BGNES recalls that during her swearing-in ceremony on 12 May, the new president of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, used only the name "Macedonia" instead of the official name, the Republic of North Macedonia, in violation of the Prespa Agreement.
The agreement was signed on 17 June 2018 in Sr. Nivitsi on the shores of the Great Prespa Lake by the then foreign ministers of the two countries, Nikos Kodzias and Nikola Dimitrov. Prime Ministers Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev were also present. The agreement put an end to the long-standing dispute over Macedonia's name between the authorities in Skopje and Athens. / BGNES
