The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikos Dendias, held their first meeting on the sidelines of an informal meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers with foreign ministers from EU candidate countries (GYMNICH) in Helsinki, MIA reports from Athens.

Dendias said in a statement after talks with his EU colleagues that he had met with Dimitrov over the Prespa Agreement.

We had our first meeting with Mr. Dimitrov where we discussed the aspects of the implementation of the Prespa Agreement. I made it clear to Mr. Dimitrov that Greece would insist on strict implementation of the agreement, Dendias said.