REUTERS

"I have never said such a thing. And we will respond to The Guardian. It is obvious from the text itself that it came from a comment from a journalist, not my statement," Gruevski said in a written statement regarding the interview given to the British newspaper, Meta reports.

"It is crystal clear. We are used to these sorts of provocations. Obviously the topic of our countries name, and the name dispute itself, has become popular at a point in time as one would expect and such tendentious and erroneous interpretations of many who do not want good process for the country and are either yearning for false exclusivity or performing someone else's agenda, we expect this sort of behavior," he said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, according to The Guardian, the Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said he would be open to changing his country's name, raising hopes of an end to one of the world's most unusual diplomatic spats – a 24-year linguistic dispute with Greece.

Видео дня