The Ambassador of the Republic of Northern Macedonia in Sofia Agneza Rusi-Popovska was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today to be strongly protested. This was announced by the ministry on its website, quoted by BTA.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs specifies that the reaction was dictated by the press conference of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Alexander Nikoloski on August 29 of this year. On the Bulgarian side, the consistent position regarding the European perspective of Skopje was reaffirmed. It was regrettably found that the systemic provocations and refusal to fulfill commitments by official representatives of the neighboring country further distance it from starting negotiations with the EU. The official and every subsequent cabinet will continue the natural line of Bulgarian foreign policy towards the Republic of North Macedonia, aimed at guaranteeing human rights and observing the principles of good neighborliness, the MFA states.
We remind you that on Thursday the MIA agency reported that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport of the Republic of North Macedonia, Aleksandar Nikoloski, believes that the process of constitutional changes in the country and the negotiation framework are the main topic in the Bulgarian media every time there is elections in Bulgaria. He said this after being asked to comment on a statement by the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from which they said yesterday that “the authorities in Skopje should be clear that attempts to launch ideas for renegotiation can only lead to an agreement a new distance from the beginning of the negotiations”. The statement of the Bulgarian MFA came on the occasion of the words of the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Hristiyan Mitskoski from earlier that day that the country wants to unblock the process of European integration and will work committed to this agenda, but on the other hand there must be a partner, with whom to communicate with, stressing that he hopes that after the elections for the Bulgarian Parliament on October 27, there will be a regular government with which to find a solution to the decade-long blockade of the European integration of North Macedonia.