Skopje, Macedonia
Macedonia this week rejected a U.N. proposal that it go by the name Republic of Macedonia-Skopje. The tiny country, which gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, said it planned to continue calling itself Macedonia. Neighboring Greece objects to that name, on the grounds that it could imply Macedonian designs on Greece’s own province called Macedonia. Macedonia said Greece was free to continue calling it “the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,” but that to everyone else, it would simply be Macedonia.
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