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In a post on Twitter on Monday, following a referendum on Sunday that drew a small turnout in favor of changing the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the country's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev indicated that there was no alternative to the deal with Greece.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart Zoran Zaev of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Monday held a telephone conversation, according to local media reports.

The call, which according to government sources started at 3 p.m. and lasted for about one hour, was held "in a good climate," reports said.

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) said Saturday he is ready to go ahead with a new name for his country in order to solve a decades-long name dispute with Greece and pave the way for full integration of the small Balkan country into the European Union and NATO.

NATO's secretary general is meeting officials in Skopje to discuss the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's (FYROM) renewed accession bid, a decade after a dispute with neighboring Greece halted an initial effort to join the alliance.

The deputy prime minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) expressed optimism on Thursday over renewed efforts to resolve a decades-long dispute with neighboring Greece over the Balkan country's name that has kept it out of NATO.