"Northern Macedonia is a reliable partner of the United States in the field of security, and its membership in NATO will directly benefit the strategic interests of the United States and NATO," said Trump in a statement.
In January, the Macedonian Parliament approved a law amending the Constitution to rename the country to Northern Macedonia.
Subsequently, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that he welcomed this event and "looking forward to" Northern Macedonia in the alliance.
An employee of the Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Artyom Ulunyan, during a conversation with the NCH indicated that the renaming of Macedonia opens her way to the EU