What does FYRO stand for?

Due to a name dispute with Greece, Macedonia was admitted in the UN in 1993 with a provisional name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

The new proposal consists a good basis for negotiations over the name and could be accepted by the Greek side, under three specific and clear preconditions: Firstly , it's well defined that any commonly-accepted name between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will be for all uses without exceptions; for both the Greece-FYROM bilateral communication and Skopje's international relations.

The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and the EFTA country, Liechtenstein, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia, and Georgia align themselves with this declaration.

The club has donated 2,000 shirts to a campaign which helps disadvantaged families throughout the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

reached an agreement to acquire a stake in Pivara Skopje, the largest brewery in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

Since its birth as a state entity in 1991, just after the dissolution of the united Yugoslavia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has based its own existence in the appropriation and use of ancient Greek names and symbols.

Of the 400,000 people who fled to Germany to escape another recent conflict in the Balkans, civil war in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 100,000 are still in Germany, although the war ended in 1995.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) was among these states which obtained EU''s solemn undertaking that Skopje will be accepted in the European family when specific conditions will be fully met.