12 Dec 2011
Mike Sweet
Strong reaction in Australia followed this week's ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that Greece breached the 1995 UN-brokered Interim Accord with FYROM.
According to the ICJ, Greece's actions in 2008 in relation to a NATO summit in Bucharest which debated FYROM's membership, "breached its obligation" under the agreement to end the dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav republic. The court however declined FYROM's request to stop Athens continuing to raise objections to Skopje's membership in "any other international, multilateral and regional organizations and institutions," saying it did not consider such a move necessary.