The other day at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance, which is in Brussels, in a solemn atmosphere, a protocol was signed on the accession to NATO of the former Yugoslav republic - Macedonia. To date, the state is like a renaming procedure. Soon the country will be called the "Republic of Northern Macedonia".
Renaming is known to be connected with the position of Greece. The ancestral home of the Olympic Games, being itself a member of NATO, was very unhappy that after the collapse of Yugoslavia, the namesake country of one of its regions of Macedonia appeared on the political map of Europe. As a result, Athens blocked the path of Skopje to NATO and the European Union. Because of this dispute, a new Western Balkan country was accepted into the UN under the code name "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and recommended that the parties resolve their differences peacefully.
The presidential agreement concluded between Athens and Skopje on June 17, 2018 provides for the name "Republic of Northern Macedonia".
At the summit in Brussels on July 11-12, 2018, NATO invited Macedonia to join the organization. On October 18 of the same year, negotiations on the accession of the new country began in the North Atlantic Alliance, but the agreement on the name was still to be ratified by the parliaments of Greece and Macedonia. This process ended in January 2019.
