Citizens of FYROM vote on deal to change country's name

Citizens of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonian (FYROM) go to polls on Sunday to vote on whether to change their country's name to Republic of North Macedonia, urged by a pro-Western government to pave the way for NATO and EU membership by resolving a decades-old name dispute with Greece.

The referendum is one of the last hurdles for a deal reached between FYROM and Greece in June to settle their quarrel, which has prevented FYROM from joining major Western institutions since it broke away from then-Yugoslavia in 1991. 

Greece, which has its own northern province called Macedonia, has always maintained that FYROM's name represented a claim on its territory. It vetoed FYROM's entrance into NATO and the EU, and forced it to enter the United Nations under a provisional name as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or FYROM. 

FYROM's Prime Minister Zoran...