(12 Dec 2017) Macedonia's prime minister reiterated his will on Tuesday to reach a solution with Greece following more than two decades of disputes over his country's name.
Zoran Zaev said Macedonian and Greek officials were working "to reach a solution".
Zaev, in power since spring, has vowed to improve relations with Greece, which has opposed Macedonia's name since it declared it and won recognition by the United Nations after Yugoslavia's breakup in 1991.
Greece says Macedonia's name harbors territorial pretensions on Greece's northern province of the same name.
Greece blocked Macedonia from joining NATO in 2008 under its provisional name.
In Kosovo on the first-ever visit by a Macedonian prime minister to its neighbour, Zaev also vowed to warm ties there.
He said Skopje would acquiesce to Kosovo's demands for a new, international investigation into a 2015 attack by militants from Kosovo in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo.
Eight police officers and 10 militants were killed in fighting that was hotly disputed by both sides and was the worst outbreak of violence in Macedonia since a nine-month insurgency by fighters from its Kosovar minority in 2001.
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