Macedonia Signs Agreement To Join NATO
(WorldNews Greece)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday was a `historic day` after NATO members signed an accord with Macedonia to allow the former Yugoslav republic to become the 30th member of the U.S.-led alliance, according to BBC News. Macedonia was able to sign the document after coordinating a deal with Greece to end a 27-year-old dispute over its name. The NATO accession protocol has to be ratified by the allied governments, but Macedonia´s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said the future of the country will never be alone. `We stand beside these 29 allies... able and ready to assume the obligations arising from our full membership in NATO,` Dimitrov said during a news conference...