Respect for the rights of Macedonian Bulgarians is a key prerequisite for starting EU membership talks in the Republic of Northern Macedonia, BGNES reports.
This was stated by the President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev in a telephone conversation today with the Special Envoy of the United Kingdom for the Western Balkans Sir Stuart Peach.
He added that Bulgaria expects Bulgarians in the RSM to fit on an equal footing with other parts of the nation in the country’s Constitution.
The two also discussed overcoming the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the European perspective of the Western Balkans.
They were unanimous that in addition to security threats, there were social and economic consequences of military action that needed real action to deal with.
The president and Sir Stuart Peach discussed ways to tackle the looming food crisis amid blocked grain exports from Ukraine, the world’s second-largest grain producer and exporter. The United Kingdom’s special envoy for the Western Balkans expressed his country’s readiness to implement joint energy projects related to the diversification of supplies to the region.
Radev and Peic stressed that the progress of the Western Balkans in the process of European integration is of strategic importance for the security and stability of the region.
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