1.   Gligorov recently signed on to a U.S. plan to end the dispute with Greece, which had resulted in a Greek embargo against his country.

2.   The economy is reeling from the Greek embargo, which has cut off the nearest access to the sea and to important raw materials.

3.   To mitigate the effects of the Greek embargo, the United Nations and Western governments are ignoring the wide-scale sanctions violations by Macedonia.

4.   Macedonia and Greece signed a memorandum Friday to remove a Greek economic embargo against its landlocked northern neighbor.

5.   Greece and Macedonia moved closer to ending their four-year feud Wednesday as negotiators here tackled remaining obstacles, mainly the lifting of the Greek economic embargo.