The Ministry of International Affairs of North Macedonia expressed its “critical concern” in regards to the outcomes of the inhabitants census carried out in Albania and which had been introduced yesterday, whereas it “strongly reacts to using the time period North Macedonians, to characterize the Macedonian minority dwelling in Albania”. .
In keeping with the outcomes of the census introduced yesterday in Tirana by the Statistical Service of Albania, the inhabitants of the nation stands at 2.4 million folks, lowered by 410,000 in comparison with the earlier census carried out within the nation in 2011.
The variety of “North Macedonians” in Albania stands at 2,281, in comparison with 5,512 within the 2011 census, whereas for the primary time 7,957 folks at the moment are recorded as “Bulgarian”, though within the earlier 11 censuses in Albania not a single individual declared themselves Bulgarian.
The Albanian authorities solely acknowledged a “Bulgarian minority” in Albania in 2017. The official Sofia claims that within the earlier censuses in Albania, the Bulgarian inhabitants dwelling within the nation was prevented from being counted as such.
“Technical irregularities, each earlier than and throughout the inhabitants census in Albania, which had been consistently identified by Macedonian organizations in Albania, resulted within the announcement of preliminary knowledge which, sadly, don’t adequately replicate the precise variety of ethnic Macedonians within the nation” notes the Ministry of International Affairs of North Macedonia in at present’s announcement and informs that it’s recalling the ambassador of North Macedonia in Tirana for consultations in Skopje.
Additionally, throughout yesterday’s announcement of the outcomes of the census in Albania, the consultant of the embassy of North Macedonia left the presentation as an indication of protest, as a result of it spoke of “North Macedonians” and never “Macedonians”. Representatives of the latter in Albania introduced that they don’t acknowledge the outcomes of this census in Albania, which came about in September and October 2023, and are requesting a brand new one. The identical representatives accuse Bulgaria of a “coverage of assimilation of Macedonians dwelling in Albania”, by issuing Bulgarian passports and exerting strain for them to be registered as “Bulgarians”, whereas noting that the Albanian authorities did nothing to forestall such actions.
Bulgaria categorically rejects these accusations, which, nonetheless, are embraced by the official Skopje.
A number of hours after the response of the Ministry of International Affairs of North Macedonia, the Minister of International Affairs of the nation, Timco Muchunski, acknowledged that after his intervention to his Albanian counterpart, Igli Hasani, the Statistical Service of Albania “corrected” the time period “North Macedonians” with the time period “Macedonians”.
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