| Final Agreement for the settlement of the differences as described in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1993), the termination of the Interim Accord of 1995, and the establishment of a Strategic Partnership between the Parties | |
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_(42853677381).jpg) The foreign ministers of the two countries, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Kotzias, sign the agreement before Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras | |
| Signed | 17 June 2018 |
| Location | Psarades, Greece |
| Sealed | 25 January 2019 |
| Effective | 12 February 2019[1] |
| Condition | Ratification of the agreement by both parliaments as well as ratification of the Republic of North Macedonia's NATO accession protocol by Greece |
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| Language | English |
| Full text | |
 Prespa agreement at Wikisource | |
The Prespa Agreement,[a] also known as the Treaty of Prespa, the Prespes deal or the Prespa accord, is an agreement reached in 2018 between Greece and the then-Republic of Macedonia, under the auspices of the United Nations, resolving a long-standing naming dispute between the two countries. Apart from resolving the terminological differences, the agreement also covers areas of cooperation between the two countries in order to establish a strategic partnership.
Signed beside the shared Lake Prespa, from which it took its name, and ratified by the parliaments of both countries, the agreement went into force on 12 February 2019,[2] when the two countries notified the UN of the deal's completion, following the ratification of the NATO accession protocol for North Macedonia on 8 February.[3] It replaces the Interim Accord of 1995 and sees the Republic of Macedonia's constitutional name changed to the Republic of North Macedonia erga omnes.
- ^ Testorides, Konstantin (12 February 2018). "Call me by my new name: Balkan nation is North Macedonia now". Associated Press. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ "Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Prespa Agreement". Secretary-General of the United Nations. 13 February 2019.
- ^ "Macedonia and Greece: Vote settles 27-year name row". BBC News Online. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
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