Matthew Palmer

Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis expressed concern Thursday over Turkey's destabilizing role in the region.

Cyprus' government spokesman says a partnership between Greece, Cyprus and Israel in which the US is participating is seen by Washington as contributing to security and stability in the eastern Mediterranean.

The three countries have forged an energy-based partnership that has steadily grown following the discovery of gas deposits in the east Mediterrenean.

The Prespes name deal signed between Athens and Skopje should serve as a blueprint for resolving many bilateral differences in the Western Balkans, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer was quoted on Friday by the Athens-Macedonia News Agency as telling Radio Free Europe.

Brnabic will start her visit to Sarajevo with a working meeting with EBRD President Sumo Chakrabarti.

US Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer spoke for the CorD magazine to make this statement, Beta agency is reporting.

Scott said the blame for the current relations between Belgrade and Pristina is also the absence of dialogue on both sides.

Visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer has urged all sides interested in the goings-on in Cyprus's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to practice restraint and reiterated Washington's support for United Nations-backed efforts for a solution on the island entailing a bizonal, bicommunal federation.

The United States has made a "strategic decision" whereby Greece is the "ideal partner" in the quest to bring stability and prosperity to a "complex" region, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer has said.

The United States expects the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to join NATO in mid-2020 by which time its name change deal with Greece should be fully implemented despite Russian efforts to undermine it, the top US official for the Western Balkans said on Tuesday.

A senior US official says the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia could join NATO by early 2020 if it implements an agreement with Greece to rename itself "North Macedonia," resolving the two countries' decades-old name dispute.