Greece’s Alternate Foreign Minister Georgios Katrougalos in an interview with the Greek radio Sto Kokkino on Wednesday said that the Prespa Agreement opens a new era of good, bilateral and friendly relations between the two countries, MIA’s Athens correspondent reported.

Katrougalos explained that the note verbale was sent on Tuesday, as well as the joint letter from the two countries to the United Nations “in which they inform the Secretary-General that they finally put an end to a dispute that lasted almost 30 years.”

“As we have already said, it is a good deal that opens a new era of good, bilateral and friendly relations between the two countries, but perhaps more important than this is that it stabilizes the wider region of the Balkans and gives us valuable political capital to spend it where we should, to the east of our country,” Katrougalos said.