Speaking ahead of a meeting of Alliance defence ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he hoped accession talks for FYROM’s membership to the Alliance would be completed by January 2019.
“Accession talks have already begun. And I expect that we will conclude them by January next year”, he explained to the press. “Once all the constitutional changes on the new name are completed, we can sign the accession protocol, giving Skopje a seat at NATO’s...