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Reject Russian complaints over Macedonia and NATO

By Tom Rogan

Published September 17, 2018 6:15pm ET

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Reject Russian complaints over Macedonia and NATO — Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, center, takes a part in a march named "For European Macedonia", through a street in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. | (Boris Grdanoski/AP)

If, in a referendum on Sept. 30, Macedonian voters approve changing their nation’s name to the Republic of North Macedonia, NATO should welcome their government into the alliance.

That referendum is a prerequisite for final-stage NATO and European Union membership negotiations with Macedonia, which was for decades last century part of Yugoslavia.

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