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FYROM Foreign Minister Nikolai Dimitrov received an invitation by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to join the North Atlantic Alliance. The letter addressed to the Republic of North Macedonia was received late Monday afternoon, media report.
The invitation of North Macedonia’s accession to the NATO came just three days after Greek lawmakers ratified the Agreement.
The signature date for the accession protocol is be announced soon.
Speaking to Politico Playbook earlier on Monday Stoltenberg said “We will sign an accession protocol in NATO and we can do that within a short time.”
“The ratification will take some time, it depends on all 29 parliaments,” according to Stoltenberg. “Last time it took around a year,” he said, referring to Montenegro’s accession to the Alliance, which was completed in 2017. “As soon as we have signed the accession protocol, Skopje will start to sit at the table,” he added.
Greece has agreed to be the first to sign, which will activate the name change and pave the way for a process that will increase the alliance’s numbers to 30.
NATO is the first organization to make good on the West’s promise to bring the newly named country into the fold. The next opportunity for the EU to make a step toward Skopje will come this summer, when it is slated to review candidates for EU accession.
But when will FYROM start to officially use its new name “North Macedonia“?
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