Monday, July 21, 2008

Menendez in battle between countries

Sides with Greece against Macedonia's own name
Sunday, July 20, 2008
BY ROBERT COHEN
STAR-LEDGER WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -- Robert Menendez has never been known to shy away from a political brawl, even one that is thousands of miles from New Jersey, has its roots in antiquity and touches the raw nerves of two sovereign nations.

From his perch on Capitol Hill, the New Jersey senator has injected himself into a bitter dispute over the name of a small Balkan nation -- a country that since independence in 1991 has called itself the Republic of Macedonia, and which neighboring Greece insists should be known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or FYROM.

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