"Statement that Greece should be called Former Ottoman Province is an insult and a mockery. This will not help for the process of the name issue negotiations,” said Greek Minister of foreign Affairs, Evangelos Venizelos, writes FYROM΄s Dnevnik daily.
In a commentary on FYROM's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s statement about the Former Ottoman Province of Greece (FOPOG), the Greek top diplomat said that it was probably some kind of a lapsus and not a political statement.
He upheld the Greek position on a geographic term before the name Macedonia and that official Athens would not lose ground on its stand.
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