NATO chief: no Plan B for FYROM

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg indicated on Thursday that there is no plan B for Skopje to join the alliance if it does not resolve its decades-old name dispute with Greece and launch wide-ranging reforms. 

Although Stoltenberg told Parliament in Skopje that he "strongly welcomes" FYROM's NATO aspirations, he clarified that while it is "good to be ambitious, it is also important to be realistic." 

"There is still much hard work to be done. That means, of course, resolving the issue of your country's name. It's an issue that has weighed on this region - and this country - for far too long," he said. 

His comments follow the resumption of negotiations on Wednesday under the aegis of United Nations special mediator Matthew Nimitz. 

For his part, while leaving a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Maximos Mansion on Thursday, Greek Foreign...