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Your prime minister North macedoniaς, Zoran zaef has today expressed its strong dissatisfaction with the “conditions” established by Bulgaria with regard to the start of negotiations for its accession to the European Union.
Last Friday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, held a visit sofia where he held meetings with his Bulgarian counterpart Ekaterina Zakharieva and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to find a compromise solution to the historical differences between the two countries and for Bulgaria to lift its reservations about the start of its accession negotiations. Macedonia with the EU.
“Conversations between our Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov they were goodHowever, the talks between Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva and Minister Bujar Osmani were not very good. What the other party is proposing is not in line with good neighborly relations, it is not at all fraternal and it is far from any European concept. “And if that continues to be the case, we must prepare the Macedonian people for the possibility of not starting the first intergovernmental conference (between North Macedonia and the EU) scheduled for December,” Zoran Zaef said today.
However, the Prime Minister of North Macedonia expressed the hope that he could find some solution with his Bulgarian counterpart, so that his country begins the negotiations for accession to the EU.
Memorandum of Bulgaria
Bulgaria submitted a lengthy document to the capitals of the other 26 EU member states last August titled “explanatory memorandum on the relations of the Republic of Bulgaria with the Republic of North Macedonia in relation to the process of enlargement, accession and stabilization of the EU “, which reflects the Bulgarian positions on many historical issues with North Macedonia. “National and linguistic interventions that took place in North Macedonia in the 1970s after World War II”.
Bulgaria, although it was the first country to recognize it independence from his neighboring country, in 1991, he never recognized the latter’s language as “Macedonian”, considering that it is a dialect of Bulgarian and that the identity of the Slavic citizens of North Macedonia is Bulgarian.
This Bulgarian memorandum caused astonishment in Skopje, which considered that Sofia was seeking to block North Macedonia’s accession negotiations to the EU, “until Skopje admits that it is historically and linguistically part of Bulgaria.”
In end of March Amid the coronavirus pandemic, North Macedonia became the 30th member of NATO, while the EU gave the “green light” for the start of accession negotiations, which are expected to start in December, should that Bulgaria give its consent to such a thing.
