Prespa Agreement

Prespa Agreement

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
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
Signatories	Nikos Kotzias Nikola Dimitrov Matthew Nimetz
Parties	Hellenic Republic Republic of Macedonia
Language	English
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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 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.

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