UN General Assembly
2013

aspirations to a better future for its citizens. Commitment is necessary to make it possible for Greece to begin resolving this issue, because in the past two years there has been great inertness on the part of Greece. Although that is a result of objective reasons caused by its adverse economic situation, it also entails a strategic and tactical political element based on the analysis that prolonging the process of solving the dispute would contribute to the Republic of Macedonia being isolated in its positions, which are based on international law and values, and to its resignation to a kind of self-annihilation of the State and the nation by agreeing to be renamed. According to that line of thinking, with the lack of commitment in the discussions and the blocking of European and Euro-Atlantic integration that my country faces — integration that is directly hindered by the dispute despite our having met the standards required of us by the international multilateral organizations, NATO and the European Union — we would thus be prevented from joining and face the