FYROM name talks 'finished' on foreign ministers' level, says Kotzias

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Monday that he and his counterpart Nikola Dimitrov have done everything in their power to pave the way for a breakthrough in talks between Athens and Skopje for settling a decades-old dispute over the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

"We the foreign ministers have finished everything that was assigned to us by the prime ministers of the two countries," Kotzias said following a working breakfast with Dimitrov in Brussels, on the sidelines of a meeting of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council.

"The negotiation will continue today and possibly tomorrow on the level of experts. The issues that need to be dealt with now are technical and legal," Kotzias added. "As soon as they are finished and the technical and legal issues have been clarified, the documents prepared on the level of foreign...