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 -Committing to strengthen, widen and deepen their bilateral relations and to lay firm foundations for the entrenchment and respect of good neighbourly relations and for the development of their comprehensive bilateral cooperation,

-Seeking to reinforce and broaden their bilateral cooperation and to upgrade it to the level of a strategic partnership in the sectors of agriculture, civil protection, defence, economy, energy, environment, industry, infrastructure, investments, political relations, tourism, trade, trans-border cooperation and transport, capitalizing also on the existing CBMs,

 Have agreed as follows: 

ARTICLE 1
1. This Agreement is final and upon its entry into force terminates the Interim Accord between the Parties signed in New York on 13 September 1995.

2. The Parties recognize as binding the outcome of the negotiations that have taken place under the auspices of the United Nations, to which both Parties have been committed pursuant to the United Nations Security Council resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1993) as well as the Interim Accord of 1995.

3. Pursuant to those negotiations the following have been mutually accepted and agreed:

a) The official name of the Second Party shall be the “Republic of North Macedonia”, which shall be the constitutional name of the Second Party and shall be used erga omnes, as provided for in this Agreement. The short name of the Second Party shall be “North Macedonia”.

b) The nationality of the Second Party shall be Macedonian/citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia, as it will be registered in all travel documents.

c) The official language of the Second Party shall be the “Macedonian language”, as recognised by the Third UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, held in Athens in 1977, and described in Article 7(3) and (4) of this Agreement.

d) The terms “Macedonia” and “Macedonian” have the meaning given under Article 7 of this Agreement.

e) The country codes for licence plates of the Second Party shall be NM or NMK. For all other purposes, country codes remain MK and MKD, as officially assigned by the International Organization for Standardization (“ISO”).

f) The adjectival reference to the State, its official organs, and other public entities shall be in line with the official name of the Second Party or its short name, that is, “of the Republic of North Macedonia” or “of North Macedonia”. Other adjectival usages, including those referring to private entities and actors, that are not related to the State and public entities, are not established by law and do not enjoy financial support from the State for activities abroad, may be in line with Article 7(3) and (4). The adjectival usage for activities may be in line with Article 7(3) and (4). This is without prejudice to the process established under Article 1 (3) (h) and compound names of cities that exist at the date of the signature of this Agreement.