Macedonia Signs Accord to Join NATO

Macedonia Signs Accord to Join NATO
Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on Feb. 6, 2019. Francois Lenoir/Reuters
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BRUSSELS—NATO members signed an accord with Macedonia on Feb. 6 allowing the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic to become the 30th member of the U.S.-led alliance after a deal with Greece ended a 27-year-old dispute over its name.

At a formal signing of the NATO accession protocol, which must now be ratified by allied governments, Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov hailed the moment as showing that the country “will never walk alone” once in the alliance.