[ALBSA-Info] Mitsotakis Sees FYROM Compromise

[Gazhebo at aol.com]

Mitsotakis Sees FYROM Compromise

Conservative former PM Constantine Mitsotakis, whose government refused to 
recognize the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at the height of a 
dispute over what Greece's northern neighbor should be called, yesterday 
proposed a compromise solution.

"If we now head for a compromise - which I consider most likely and not a bad 
thing - the council of political leaders must necessarily be convoked first 
under the president," Mitsotakis said.

Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday night, opposition New Democracy's 
honorary chairman had noted that a 1992 decision by the same council not to 
recognize FYROM under any name containing the word Macedonia had "harmed 
Greece."

Yesterday, press reports in Skopje quoted FYROM Premier Ljubco Georgievski as 
proposing the "compromise" of the name Macedonia being used in communication 
with the world in general, while Greece could call the country by any name of 
its choice.