Elementary provocations between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia should not be allowed. This was said by the Speaker of the National Assembly Natalia Kiselova, who attended the commemoration on the capital's "St. Nedelya" Square of the 80th anniversary of "Bloody Christmas", when thousands of people with Bulgarian identity were killed in Vardar Macedonia, BNR reported.
The Speaker of the National Assembly stressed that Sofia is committed to Skopje's European integration.
"Elementary provocations can worsen relations between two countries. The Bulgarian state relies on our neighbors to return to the negotiating table and not maintain that there should be renegotiation, because this is already renegotiation with the European Union, not with Bulgaria," Kiselova noted.
"We have a rather difficult year ahead of us - both domestically and certainly in terms of foreign policy there will be serious changes, but what I think is unchanging is that the Republic of Bulgaria insists on the integration of our neighbors into the European Union," the Speaker of the National Assembly also pointed out.
This week, a screening of the documentary film by journalist Milena Milotinova "Just because they were Bulgarians" took place. The film recalled the events of the so-called "Bloody Christmas" in Macedonia in 1945. The screening at the Macedonian Institute was attended by the Speaker of the National Assembly Natalia Kiselova, Kostadin Filipov from the Macedonian Scientific Institute, the President of the Institute Prof. Dr. Georgi Nikolov. Among the participants in the discussion were MEP Andrey Kovachev, Alexander Yordanov and Angel Dimitrov, former ambassadors of Bulgaria to the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM), Blagoy Shatorov from the "Ivan Mihaylov" Cultural Center and Goran Serafimovski-Cane from the New Political Emigration from Macedonia in our country, historians, public figures, citizens.