The chairman of the parliamentary group of the BSP-UNITED LEFT Dragomir Stoynev made an interesting gift to the Ambassador of Denmark to Bulgaria H.E. Fleming Stender. During a meeting of the Committee on European Affairs in the National Assembly, at which the diplomat presented the priorities of the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union, the MP presented him with two books with a message.
„These are notes from your colleagues, diplomats, 120 years ago regarding the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903, when Bulgarian lands remained under the influence of the Ottoman Empire and then the people revolted. Since today the Republic of North Macedonia refuses to recognize that there are citizens with Bulgarian identity there who call themselves Bulgarians. Moreover, they are persecuted and repressed“, explained Stoynev.
According to him, in the first book, in which in their reports over 30 ambassadors in Constantinople describe the suffering of the Bulgarians in these lands, there is unambiguous information about the Bulgarian ethnic composition of the population in Macedonia. In it, the British ambassador in Constantinople writes: “All of Macedonia, with the exception of 130 villages, was involved in the Bulgarian insurgent organization.“ And the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister is categorical: “The Bulgarian movement acquired the character of an uprising.“
The second book contains maps by famous cartographers from all over the world on the Balkans in the period from the mid-19th century to the First World War, in which Macedonia is designated either as part of Bulgaria or as a separate region.
“I think these books will be useful reading for you to really know what was happening in our lands“, addressed the Danish ambassador Dragomir Stoinev.
