Talks over FYROM name begin today in NY

At this meeting Mr Nimetz may propose names. Just hours before the negotiations began, he even revealed the context in which the nomenclature would be launched during an interview. "I think that in today's circumstances we will look for a different solution, otherwise I will table a new proposal," he said, speaking last night on ANT1 television.

"I am going to table a new proposal because it is a new juncture. Some suggestions have been discussed for many years, and as I said in an interview a few days ago, there is no magic solution here. No one can discover something completely new, if there was something new we would have discovered it in 25 years.

People in Athens, Skopje and the UN are not fools. I think that in today's circumstances we will look for a different solution in a new way. That's what I will try to do,"Nimetz said.

Without mentioning in detail his proposal he stressed that "we can now find a solution that meets the requirements of the Greeks and satisfies the people of the northern neighbor". He pointed out, however, that "we must be realistic because" at the moment, the country's name at the UN is the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Nimetz stressed that "we can now find a solution, the term Macedonia is included in the name and recognized by Greece. More than 100 countries recognize this country as "Republika Makedonija" and therefore the term Macedonia is associated with that country. "

He also underlined that in Greece they estimate that "the country can play a more important role in the region and that now that the economic crisis is over, many expect Greece to play this role. One way of doing this is to solve the issue with their northern neighbor.

In Skopje, on the other hand, there is the premise that some of the ideas of the past were not necessarily favorable and that it was time to solve the issue and to deal with the European and North-Atlantic course of the country and solve the problem with Greece," he said.

Mr Nimetz also said he expects the two sides to study his ideas carefully, with an open mind and to adopt a positive approach to solving the problem.