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North Macedonia: Guterres,Nobel to Zaev and Tsipras for deal

UN Secretary-General, historic signing

27 February, 13:43
(ANSA) - SKOPJE, FEB 27 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he intends to support the proposal to award the Macedonian and Greek premieres, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras the Nobel Peace Prize 2019 for reaching the successful agreement on the name of the former Yugoslav country, which ended a 30-year dispute between Skopje and Athens. The Macedonian media reported that Guterres spoke about this issue in a meeting yesterday at the UN headquarters in New York with Macedonia's deputy foreign minister Andrej Zernovski.

Guterres underlined that the Prespa Agreement has historical importance not only for the two countries but also for the region and the whole of Europe. (ANSA).

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