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Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is due to conduct a landmark visit to Skopje Thursday, amid signs that Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are edging closer to a solution on the latter's official name, though differences remain within the coalition in Athens over the issue.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is heading to Skopje on Thursday with a document containing a comprehensive proposal from Athens to settle a decades old name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

As Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias prepares to visit Skopje amid talks to resolve the name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the latter's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev repeated that he sees no need to change the country's constitution.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has supported the position of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in its ongoing name dispute with Greece.

Petar Ciric, a former Serb Territorial Defence force member in Croatia convicted of involvement in the 1991 Ovcara Farm massacre, asked a Belgrade court to parole him after serving two-thirds of his sentence.

Skopje Mayor Petre Shilegov has voiced his support for renewed efforts to settle the name dispute with Athens, while admitting that Alexander the Great was never part of the history of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Greek firefighters say a man and woman from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) have been found frozen to death at the summit of Mount Kaimaktsalan.

The man, 35, and the woman, 28, had been missing since Saturday morning. They were a part of a group of 40 people who were staying at the Greek ski resort of Voras.

In an ideal world where the country's politicians were true patriots - at least in the sense of this writer's understanding of the notion - Greece's name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) would be handled very differently.

The United Nations' special mediator on the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is in Athens for a meeting with Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias.

Ahead of that he is to meet with George Koumoutsakos, New Democracy's shadow minister for foreign affairs.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday said that what the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is called is not as important as ensuring that its constitution does to not suggest irredentist aims.