„In this situation, it is clear to me that I should not become a bone of contention and a figure that would divide society and prevent the institutions from doing their work, so I am certainly withdrawing my approval to be foreign minister”. This was stated by the deputy chairman of GERB, Daniel Mitov, quoted by bTV.
„I want to thank the acting Prime Minister for the trust, to Mr. Borisov, for approaching my possible role in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with understanding. I accepted not because this is a main goal for me, I was a foreign minister and that is not the point. The question is that in this situation the state must have a clear foreign policy course that is pro-Atlantic, pro-NATO and pro-European, Mitov said.