Skopje  - Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski on Wednesday has proposed a double-name system to end a years- long dispute with Greece over the use of the name Macedonia.

The two countries have been at loggerheads over the name since the 1990s break-up of former Yugoslavia. The country, which emerged from the break-up, shares its name with a province in neighbouring Greece.

Greece, Gruevski said, "shows no desire to discuss" the matter.

Skopje, Macedonia - Prime Minister Nikola Grujevski was Monday, three weeks after troubled snap parliamentary polls, again appointed to head the troubled Balkan country's government.

Gruevski's nationalist VNMRO-DPMNE won 63 out of the 120 assembly seats and has an absolute majority in marred June 1 elections and now has 20 days to present his cabinet.

VMRO would nevertheless partner one of two ethnic Albanian parties to represent the restive minority, making up around one-quarter of the 2.1 million Macedonian citizens, but dominating in the entire north-western section of the country.