On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 09:09:50AM EST, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Jan Stary said: > > -MK:MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF > > +MK:MACEDONIA > > AFAIK the former variant is currently the correct one. There is a > dispute between Macedonia and Greece regarding the meaning of the word > "Macedonia" - Greece maintains that this word refers to its region (as > in Alexander III of Macedon).
TFYROM is the name, under which, Republic of Macedonia (to give its full name) is, provisionally, referred to within the UN, until said dispute is resolved[0]. Therefore, given that ISO 3166-1 country codes and names are linked to membership within the UN, or other international organisations, the former name should remain... or changed to: MK:MACEDONIA, REPUBLIC OF to find the middle ground. [0] http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml#t Regards, Raf
