“This night, for the first time, I slept peacefully, because yesterday I realized that the fraternal people of Northern Macedonia will not attack Bulgaria with the donated tanks and there will be no territorial claims. They will not take Bansko from us. Which claims do you have? We all want to be in the EU – we were the first to recognize you, we were the first to support you for NATO. To say that history is not important is like dying like a sheep without history.
This was stated by GERB leader Boyko Borissov at a meeting with party members in Silistra, commenting on the visit of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov to Skopje on Tuesday, BGNES reports.
Borissov noted that this is the first time a Bulgarian statesman has visited Northern Macedonia and is not going to lay a flower on Gotse Delchev’s grave.
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The former prime minister asked to find out whether during the meeting of four others between Kiril Petkov and the president of RS Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski they talked about the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria.
“Our Constitution clearly states that all Bulgarian citizens are equal,” Borissov said.
“Their prime minister, even for one day, managed to trap ours for the fascists. This is not to be underestimated, he very cleverly trapped him “, Borissov thinks. “Entering the trap of fascism, we renounce the feat of the Bulgarian people to oppose Hitler for the saved over 50,000 Bulgarian Jews.”
“Everything else is solved easily, this very issue, these very problems that are now sweeping them away, actually stopped us for two years,” Borissov stressed.
However, Kiril Petkov himself described his visit to Skopje as a “huge success”.
“On the one hand, we shook hands, going there first, on the other hand, they gave us a note that we had hoped to receive for two years. This note is much more important than just a short and long name. This note says that RS Macedonia has no claims to the territorial integrity of Bulgaria. It is very normal for them to say that, but this note has been talked about, talked about, negotiated by us, just because we made a new approach, we got it. It should be understood here that yesterday was a huge success “, Kiril Petkov thinks.
After the visit to Skopje: Petkov reported two major successes
“> After the visit to Skopje: Petkov reported two major successes
According to him, working groups will discuss the part of history in which there were fascist regimes throughout Europe and how this has affected the territory of today’s Republic of Northern Macedonia.
“More than that, the historical commission must go into detail. It is much more important that we have united to have transport – connection from Sofia to Skopje in 60 days. This will be done in the most transparent way “, said Kiril Petkov.
“Many people yesterday jealously saw that something we had achieved with the first move – to receive this first note, they had failed to achieve,” said the Bulgarian Prime Minister.
