{"id":47400,"date":"2011-12-07T03:43:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T01:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=47400"},"modified":"2014-01-06T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:52:49","slug":"turkey-welcomes-un-court-ruling-on-macedonia-greece-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/12\/07\/turkey-welcomes-un-court-ruling-on-macedonia-greece-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey welcomes UN court ruling on Macedonia-Greece row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey welcomes UN court ruling on Macedonia-Greece row<\/p>\n

06 December 2011 | 16:06 | FOCUS News Agency<\/p>\n

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Ankara. Turkey welcomed on Tuesday a ruling by the UN’s top court that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia’s entry to NATO because of name dispute, AFP reported.<\/p>\n

The International Court of Justice ruled Monday that NATO member Greece had breached a 1995 interim accord by blocking Macedonia’s entry into the alliance in 2008 over a dispute over the former Yugoslav republic’s name.<\/p>\n

“We welcome the decision and hope it will accelerate Macedonia’s integration with Europe and Euro-Atlantic organisations and provide it with support on the legal ground,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The ministry said Turkey, also a NATO member, would continue to support Macedonia for the process of its integration with Europe and transatlantic organisations to be concluded “without delay”.<\/p>\n

Greece alleges that use of the name Macedonia suggests a territorial claim to the northern Greek province of the same name while Skopje maintains that changing the name would be a denial of its own national identity and language.<\/p>\n

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