Serbia "could change its mind on Macedonia's name" - FM
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday that his country "could change its position regarding the name of Macedonia."
Source: Tanjug
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(Tanjug)
"If Macedonia really were to vote in favor of admitting Kosovo to UNESCO - although it's aware what a blow that would be to Serbia and the Serb people - I will make a proposal to President Vucic that Serbia should, in connection to the name under which we recognized Macedonia - take into account the position of the EU - just as they do, when it comes to Kosovo in UNESCO," Dacic told the agency.
He was referring to Belgrade recognizing Macedonia under its constitutional name of "the Republic of Macedonia" - while the majority of EU member-states recognize the country as "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FRYOM)."
The country's name has been the subject of a decades-long dispute with Greece, whose northern province is also called Macedonia - prompting Athens to challenge Skopje's claim to the name.
Dacic also today noticed that the latest announcements coming out of Skopje - stand "directly opposed to all the statements Macedonia PM Zoran Zaev has made so far, that Macedonia would be neutral."
Beside speaking publicly about this topic, Zaev also "conveyed the neutrality position" to Serbia's PM Brnabic in Trieste - Dacic said, apparently referencing the recent Western Balkans summit held in the Italian town.
A change in this position, Dacic continued, "will directly influence our good-neighborly relations."
According to the Serbian foreign minister, who also serves as the first deputy prime minister - Belgrade's goal is to have good relations - "but only on the basis of reciprocity."
Unfortunately Serbia's stupid politicians that undermine the country's own interests. Rather than follow principles they are all over the map.
This name issue is a perfect example of their unprincipled bahavior. The Serbian government recognized obvious frauds as "ethnic' Macedonians while expecting other countries not to recognize Kosovo. Greece, one of the few European countries doesn't do this because it is understands that recognition is not some minor issue. And what do Serbian politicians do? Betray ally Greece for Skopje... who now recognize Kosovo. (recognized by VMRO who Serbian politians thought was their "ally")
It's almost like Serbian politicians are trying to destroy Serbia. They make one stupid decision after another.
(anon, 17 September 2017 17:44)
Let me remind you Kosova is going nowhere except in circles until we say otherwise.
(sj, 23 August 2017 10:27)
That's great since Kosovo does not want to go away from where it is now: i.e. being independent from Serbia. Of course, that will be the case until the CE of B92 forums sj says otherwise lol
P.S. CE = Chief Economist
(icj1, 24 August 2017 01:28)
You must feel really desperate inside if you feel the need to write that.
(cry me a river, 23 August 2017 03:45)
Nope just a statement of fact. Serbia’s days of keeping quiet are over. The only people that are desperate are Albanians who flood a Serbian-based media site to push their fantasies. Let me remind you Kosova is going nowhere except in circles until we say otherwise.
(sj, 23 August 2017 10:27)
We do what we like and when we like and no wankers are going to stop us. Mate its our way or the highway – look at Kosovo LOL running rings around and around in circles while Albos wither and die there. As far as someone liking us, who gives a figs whether they like us or not as long as they fear us and boy they do.
(sj
You must feel really desperate inside if you feel the need to write that.
(cry me a river, 23 August 2017 03:45)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia. Don't you think some wrong with you? And before you call Albanians Islamic terrorist , there were other terrorist in Balkans called serbian terrorists , rapists , thugs ...
(Albanian American, 21 August 2017 18:25)
We do what we like and when we like and no wankers are going to stop us. Mate its our way or the highway – look at Kosovo LOL running rings around and around in circles while Albos wither and die there. As far as someone liking us, who gives a figs whether they like us or not as long as they fear us and boy they do.
(sj, 22 August 2017 14:43)
РУТЕНИЯ IS ALSO A GOOD OLD-NEW NAME THAT MEANS SAME AS MACEDONIA. BUT БЕЛА (АК-Е) ВОДЫ (ДОН) COULD BE A MORE PRECISE INTERPRETATION OF MACEDONIA. ANYWAY GREECE MUST RECEIVE THE SAME NAME BUT IN SLAVIC.
(rote, 22 August 2017 14:39)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia.
(Albanian American
Harkus, forget this word - I am Albanian here and you are a shqiptare. And it's not your business what we Slavs do among us. Soooner or later the sun will raise in the east ...
(rote, 21 August 2017 22:41)
@Alb Amerikan - You're dead wrong, as usual! The "west" found their "man" in Zaev and are using this idiot to stir the pot. He made too many promises to get to power and now he's obliged to fulfill them...kinda like Trump, promised the world and is having a hard time keeping those promises.
Motto of the West: If we don't own you, we will buy you, if we DO own you, we will sell you! You Albs just can't seem to understand that the West is playing you & Srbija!
(Watcher, 21 August 2017 20:39)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia. Don't you think some wrong with you? And before you call Albanians Islamic terrorist , there were other terrorist in Balkans called serbian terrorists , rapists , thugs ...
(Albanian American, 21 August 2017 18:25)
Dear Serbian Brother you have the right idea and I hope you get full support to reverse the wrong decision Srbija made regarding supporting Makedonija. The Greek government and Greek people for ages our southern Christian Eastern Orthodox Holy Cradle ! Greece like us the Serbian's for many many centuries fighting and holding back the Ottoman Empire from invading all of Europe ! What is all this crap comming from Makedonija, always two faced these ungratefull Ottoman Empire wan a be's ! So Makedonija prefers Ottoman Empire, then let it be, let them go, we Serbian people will not cry for their departure into Islam hands !!!
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 21 August 2017 17:52)
Dear Serbian Brother you have the right idea and I hope you get full support to reverse the wrong decision Srbija made regarding supporting Makedonija. The Greek government and Greek people for ages our southern Christian Eastern Orthodox Holy Cradle ! Greece like us the Serbian's for many many centuries fighting and holding back the Ottoman Empire from invading all of Europe ! What is all this crap comming from Makedonija, always two faced these ungratefull Ottoman Empire wan a be's ! So Makedonija prefers Ottoman Empire, then let it be, let them go, we Serbian people will not cry for their departure into Islam hands !!!
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 21 August 2017 17:52)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia. Don't you think some wrong with you? And before you call Albanians Islamic terrorist , there were other terrorist in Balkans called serbian terrorists , rapists , thugs ...
(Albanian American, 21 August 2017 18:25)
@Alb Amerikan - You're dead wrong, as usual! The "west" found their "man" in Zaev and are using this idiot to stir the pot. He made too many promises to get to power and now he's obliged to fulfill them...kinda like Trump, promised the world and is having a hard time keeping those promises.
Motto of the West: If we don't own you, we will buy you, if we DO own you, we will sell you! You Albs just can't seem to understand that the West is playing you & Srbija!
(Watcher, 21 August 2017 20:39)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia. Don't you think some wrong with you? And before you call Albanians Islamic terrorist , there were other terrorist in Balkans called serbian terrorists , rapists , thugs ...
(Albanian American, 21 August 2017 18:25)
We do what we like and when we like and no wankers are going to stop us. Mate its our way or the highway – look at Kosovo LOL running rings around and around in circles while Albos wither and die there. As far as someone liking us, who gives a figs whether they like us or not as long as they fear us and boy they do.
(sj, 22 August 2017 14:43)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia.
(Albanian American
Harkus, forget this word - I am Albanian here and you are a shqiptare. And it's not your business what we Slavs do among us. Soooner or later the sun will raise in the east ...
(rote, 21 August 2017 22:41)
You must feel really desperate inside if you feel the need to write that.
(cry me a river, 23 August 2017 03:45)
Nope just a statement of fact. Serbia’s days of keeping quiet are over. The only people that are desperate are Albanians who flood a Serbian-based media site to push their fantasies. Let me remind you Kosova is going nowhere except in circles until we say otherwise.
(sj, 23 August 2017 10:27)
РУТЕНИЯ IS ALSO A GOOD OLD-NEW NAME THAT MEANS SAME AS MACEDONIA. BUT БЕЛА (АК-Е) ВОДЫ (ДОН) COULD BE A MORE PRECISE INTERPRETATION OF MACEDONIA. ANYWAY GREECE MUST RECEIVE THE SAME NAME BUT IN SLAVIC.
(rote, 22 August 2017 14:39)
We do what we like and when we like and no wankers are going to stop us. Mate its our way or the highway – look at Kosovo LOL running rings around and around in circles while Albos wither and die there. As far as someone liking us, who gives a figs whether they like us or not as long as they fear us and boy they do.
(sj
You must feel really desperate inside if you feel the need to write that.
(cry me a river, 23 August 2017 03:45)
Let me remind you Kosova is going nowhere except in circles until we say otherwise.
(sj, 23 August 2017 10:27)
That's great since Kosovo does not want to go away from where it is now: i.e. being independent from Serbia. Of course, that will be the case until the CE of B92 forums sj says otherwise lol
P.S. CE = Chief Economist
(icj1, 24 August 2017 01:28)
Unfortunately Serbia's stupid politicians that undermine the country's own interests. Rather than follow principles they are all over the map.
This name issue is a perfect example of their unprincipled bahavior. The Serbian government recognized obvious frauds as "ethnic' Macedonians while expecting other countries not to recognize Kosovo. Greece, one of the few European countries doesn't do this because it is understands that recognition is not some minor issue. And what do Serbian politicians do? Betray ally Greece for Skopje... who now recognize Kosovo. (recognized by VMRO who Serbian politians thought was their "ally")
It's almost like Serbian politicians are trying to destroy Serbia. They make one stupid decision after another.
(anon, 17 September 2017 17:44)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia. Don't you think some wrong with you? And before you call Albanians Islamic terrorist , there were other terrorist in Balkans called serbian terrorists , rapists , thugs ...
(Albanian American, 21 August 2017 18:25)
Dear Serbian Brother you have the right idea and I hope you get full support to reverse the wrong decision Srbija made regarding supporting Makedonija. The Greek government and Greek people for ages our southern Christian Eastern Orthodox Holy Cradle ! Greece like us the Serbian's for many many centuries fighting and holding back the Ottoman Empire from invading all of Europe ! What is all this crap comming from Makedonija, always two faced these ungratefull Ottoman Empire wan a be's ! So Makedonija prefers Ottoman Empire, then let it be, let them go, we Serbian people will not cry for their departure into Islam hands !!!
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 21 August 2017 17:52)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia.
(Albanian American
Harkus, forget this word - I am Albanian here and you are a shqiptare. And it's not your business what we Slavs do among us. Soooner or later the sun will raise in the east ...
(rote, 21 August 2017 22:41)
@Alb Amerikan - You're dead wrong, as usual! The "west" found their "man" in Zaev and are using this idiot to stir the pot. He made too many promises to get to power and now he's obliged to fulfill them...kinda like Trump, promised the world and is having a hard time keeping those promises.
Motto of the West: If we don't own you, we will buy you, if we DO own you, we will sell you! You Albs just can't seem to understand that the West is playing you & Srbija!
(Watcher, 21 August 2017 20:39)
РУТЕНИЯ IS ALSO A GOOD OLD-NEW NAME THAT MEANS SAME AS MACEDONIA. BUT БЕЛА (АК-Е) ВОДЫ (ДОН) COULD BE A MORE PRECISE INTERPRETATION OF MACEDONIA. ANYWAY GREECE MUST RECEIVE THE SAME NAME BUT IN SLAVIC.
(rote, 22 August 2017 14:39)
What's happening, none of your Slavic brothers want to deal with you? First Slovenia, then Croatia, Montenegro, now Macedonia. Don't you think some wrong with you? And before you call Albanians Islamic terrorist , there were other terrorist in Balkans called serbian terrorists , rapists , thugs ...
(Albanian American, 21 August 2017 18:25)
We do what we like and when we like and no wankers are going to stop us. Mate its our way or the highway – look at Kosovo LOL running rings around and around in circles while Albos wither and die there. As far as someone liking us, who gives a figs whether they like us or not as long as they fear us and boy they do.
(sj, 22 August 2017 14:43)
We do what we like and when we like and no wankers are going to stop us. Mate its our way or the highway – look at Kosovo LOL running rings around and around in circles while Albos wither and die there. As far as someone liking us, who gives a figs whether they like us or not as long as they fear us and boy they do.
(sj
You must feel really desperate inside if you feel the need to write that.
(cry me a river, 23 August 2017 03:45)
You must feel really desperate inside if you feel the need to write that.
(cry me a river, 23 August 2017 03:45)
Nope just a statement of fact. Serbia’s days of keeping quiet are over. The only people that are desperate are Albanians who flood a Serbian-based media site to push their fantasies. Let me remind you Kosova is going nowhere except in circles until we say otherwise.
(sj, 23 August 2017 10:27)
Let me remind you Kosova is going nowhere except in circles until we say otherwise.
(sj, 23 August 2017 10:27)
That's great since Kosovo does not want to go away from where it is now: i.e. being independent from Serbia. Of course, that will be the case until the CE of B92 forums sj says otherwise lol
P.S. CE = Chief Economist
(icj1, 24 August 2017 01:28)
Unfortunately Serbia's stupid politicians that undermine the country's own interests. Rather than follow principles they are all over the map.
This name issue is a perfect example of their unprincipled bahavior. The Serbian government recognized obvious frauds as "ethnic' Macedonians while expecting other countries not to recognize Kosovo. Greece, one of the few European countries doesn't do this because it is understands that recognition is not some minor issue. And what do Serbian politicians do? Betray ally Greece for Skopje... who now recognize Kosovo. (recognized by VMRO who Serbian politians thought was their "ally")
It's almost like Serbian politicians are trying to destroy Serbia. They make one stupid decision after another.
(anon, 17 September 2017 17:44)