Macedonia PM salutes courage of Greek deputies

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Saturday paid tribute to the courage of Greek lawmakers after their vote to approve the renaming of his country to settle a decades-old dispute. "We all know very well that it wasn't easy," he told a conference in the city of Veles, a day after the 300-seat Greek parliament narrowly approved the measure. Since 1991, Athens had objected to its neighbour being called Macedonia because Greece has a northern province of the same name.