It also contained five proposed names: [ 55 ] "Constitutional Republic of Macedonia" "Democratic Republic of Macedonia" "Independent Republic of Macedonia" "New Republic of Macedonia" "Republic of Upper Macedonia" On 27 February 2008, a rally was held in Skopje called by several organisations in support of the name "Republic of Macedonia". [ 56 ] Greek nationalist party Popular Orthodox Rally also organised a similar rally in Thessaloniki on 5 March, in support of the name "Macedonia" being used only by Greece. [ 57 ] The Greek church and both major Greek parties strongly discouraged such protests "during this sensitive time of negotiation". [ 58 ] [ 59 ] On 2 March 2008 in New York, Matthew Nimetz announced that the talks had failed, that there was a "gap" in the positions of the two countries, and that there would not be any progress, unless there were some sort of compromise, which he characterised as "valuable" for both sides. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] After Greek PM Karamanlis's warnings that "no solution equals no invitation", [ 62 ] the Greek media took it for granted that Greece would veto the coming NATO accession talks for the country, in the Foreign Ministers' summit on 6 March 2008 in Brussels. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Meanwhile, in a newer poll in Greece, the "composite name that includes the name Macedonia for the country" seemed, for the first time, to be marginally more popular than the previous more hard-lined stance of "no