Prime minister George Papandreou met on Thursday in Brussels with his FYROM counterpart Nikola Gruevski on Thursday in Brussels, where the Greek premier is attending an EU summit and the latter is holding contacts with the European People’s Party (EPP).
The meeting took place at Greece’s initiative, since “we believe that direct contacts with the Skopje side offer only benefit, both to improvement of bilateral relations and to the effort for resolving the name issue,” alternate foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas, who is accompanying Papandreou, told reporters afterwards.ana-mpa
Droutsas said that Papandreou aspires that “whenever the two leaders are in the same place, to take advantage of the opportunity for a meeting”.
Regarding the content of the discussion, Droutsas said that Papandreou reiterated Greece’s desire for a solution to the name problem, stressing that “Greece supports the effort for a name with a geographical qualification en effect for all purposes (ergo omnes), and remains devoted to the UN-mediated procedure”.
(source: ana-mpa)
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