The Greek government’s decision to open up the water and land borders in and around the Great Prespa Lake and the village of Lemos, establishing border crossings between the Greek side of the lakes and that of FYROM, puts an end to problems that are a legacy of the past and which have hindered tourist development of the Prespa Lakes region and its local communities for decades, ANA reports.
The signing of the agreement on the FYROM name issue by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his FYROM counterpart Zoran Zaev is expected to create a new dynamic in the region. Tsipras and Zaev inaugurated the new regime by crossing the lake in a boat from the waterfront in Greece to the shores on the FYROM side, traversing a water border that only the lake’s fish and bird life had previously been allowed to cross.
There are more than 300,000 tourists from the UK and the Netherlands in FYROM at present, who might want to visit the Greek side of the Prespa Lakes and are currently unable to do so.
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