Zaev: Bulgaria’s position complicates negotiations with the EU, but we are working on it



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The talks between Foreign Minister Buyar Osmani and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov were good, but the talks between Bulgarian Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and Osmani they weren’t very good.

This was stated today by the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, quoted by MKD.

What Zaharieva suggested, it is not in the spirit of good neighborly relations, nor is it European, According to.

“However, I think this is not the position of my friend, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, I think this is not the position of the Bulgarian people and we will do our best in the coming days to find a solution,” he added, stressing that your country has a history.

Zaev said that so far resolved five historical figures and three historical periods between the two commissions that work on historical matters.

Added that believe the next problem will be solved. Заев expressed the expectation that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will support this process.

North Macedonia must acknowledge historical realities, urged Zaharieva

North Macedonia must acknowledge historical realities, urged Zaharieva

How Bulgaria recognizes modern realities

Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Dimitrov today of Prilep announced, hHis relations with Sofía are in a more delicate phase.

Dimitrov said that if the Macedonian language is an obstacle to starting negotiations, so the European Union does not deserve the European adjective.

We remind you that Chancellor E.Katerina Zaharieva announced that just as Bulgaria has recognized modern realities, so is North Macedonia. recognize the historical realities associated with the process of creating a new national identity.

We remember, in the European Council meeting of October 18, 2019 gram. does not agree with the start date of the accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union. France was against it then. Hours earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron insisted that the EU must first reform the accession process to make it reversible.

Earlier, on September 30, 2019, in a meeting with President Rumen Radev, it was decided that Bulgaria does not provide unconditional support to North Macedonia for its EU accession process.

A week earlier, Head of State Rumen Radev convened an emergency consultative meeting on North Macedonia, after it became clear that the last meeting of the Joint Bulgarian-Macedonian Commission for Historical Affairs, which took place on September 13, 2019 , was defined as “the most sterile”, since again it failed to reach unanimity on the issue of Gotse Delchev. Recently, negotiations on the common history of Bulgaria and Macedonia have started to falter.

Borissov denies Bulgaria blocked North Macedonia’s EU accession talks

He defended them when they did not want to include them in the negotiations at all

Months earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and IMRO leader Krassimir Karakachanov was the first to say that the commission to solve problems common to Macedonia was not working. He asked our country to issue an ultimatum to Macedonia: if they do not reconcile with the problems of our common history, Bulgaria should not support Macedonia for the EU, and yesterday he even hinted that the IMRO could leave the government. According to him, Macedonia only uses Bulgaria to be a member of the EU and NATO.

Bulgaria’s refusal to accept the two countries to celebrate the feast of the legendary IMRO figure and ideologue Gotse Delchev on October 7, when his bones were delivered to Skopje by Georgi Dimitrov, turned out to be crucial.

At a rally, the opposition in North Macedonia challenged Gotse Delchev's nationality

At a rally, the opposition in Macedonia challenged Gotse Delchev’s nationality

The Bulgarian-Macedonian commission is expected to meet in early October

On August 1, 2017, our country signed a Neighborhood Agreement with North Macedonia. Two years later, at a meeting of the two heads of state in Poznan, Borissov and Zaev agreed that the signing of the Treaty was a positive boost in the partnership between the two countries and contributed to resolving the conflict with our western neighbor and to the conclusion of the Prespa. deal: the deal with Greece, which led to the adoption of the name North Macedonia and unblocked our western neighbor’s path to the European Union and NATO.



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