/ world right this moment information/ March third doesn’t divide folks. The federal government’s proposal for an additional nationwide vacation makes an try to separate them and oppose two such brilliant dates – March 3 and Could 24. This was stated to “120 Minutes” on BTV by MEP Petar Vitanov, who at the start of the week, along with like-minded folks, introduced an initiative for a referendum on the nationwide vacation.
“We’re a gaggle of public figures, politicians, journalists, Olympic champions and, to start with, historians, who’re involved and troubled by the request of Acad. Denkov and Borisov to alter the nationwide vacation. March 3 unites each left and proper, each progressive and liberal or conservative. This problem can discover an enormous unification amongst individuals who don’t take into account it mandatory to alter their nationwide vacation,” stated Petar Vitanov.
Vitanov is of the opinion that it’s a query of makes an attempt to switch historical past with political targets.
“Could 24 is an excellent and common vacation that’s celebrated in Russia, North Macedonia, within the nations that use the Cyrillic alphabet. However the Third of March is the vacation that embodies the fruits of centuries-old struggles of the Bulgarians for nationwide liberation, autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church, for religious and cultural improvement,” he added.
“On this initiative committee there are people who find themselves detached to politics, some help President Radev, others have criticized him, however this isn’t the start of a political venture. The aim is to guard our nationwide vacation. At this time, an try is being made to rewrite historical past, that is why amongst us there are extremely revered historians similar to Prof. Pantev, Prof. Baeva, Prof. Kalinova, Prof. Mitev, so the dialogue won’t solely be political, but in addition historic,” commented Petar Vitanov.
On the event of the monument to the Soviet Military, he stated that members of the IC have a special angle.
“If I’ve to say my private place, it’s that I used to be introduced as much as construct, to not tear down. The final ones to demolish had been in Palmyra and Kabul. “Demolition means political impotence,” Vitanov believes.
In his capability as an MEP, he additionally commented on the most recent occasions associated to the conflict in Ukraine and the challenges going through Europe simply days earlier than Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech.
“On the subject of peace, I feel that this thesis isn’t promoted properly sufficient in Europe. We Europeans declare to know extra about it than the remainder of the world. For a 12 months and a half, the conflict appeared to have grow to be an on a regular basis factor. We’re witnessing complete dehumanization. In a three-month counteroffensive, Ukraine managed to recapture 200 sq. kilometers, a territory the scale of a plot of land. Luscious to rely what number of conflict machines have been misplaced, we appear to have forgotten that there are individuals who have died. We should ask ourselves the query – is that this conflict fought for territory or for folks. As a result of folks have grow to be statistics. Tens of 1000’s have died in simply three months,” commented Petar Vitanov.
The MEP isn’t optimistic in regards to the consequence of the conflict.
“There might be no army victor. Russia can not lose so long as it has unexhausted sources, and it has such, together with nuclear ones. Alternatively, nobody will permit Ukraine to lose the conflict. These are usually not my findings, however the findings of the Rand Company, a suppose tank that advises the US Division of Protection. The identical one who stated in 1969 that the Vietnam Struggle was unwinnable. And so it occurred, at the price of 1000’s extra American casualties over the following three years,” Vitanov added.
“Earlier than a significant political effort is made for a peaceable answer, many extra folks will die. The good hazard for us as Bulgarians is the Black Sea. Most weapons in it don’t entail higher safety. If this conflict can transcend the borders of Ukraine and Russia, the one course is the Black Sea, and we should be sure that it doesn’t grow to be an enviornment of hostilities. Nonetheless, these questions have to be answered by the Bulgarian authorities, which will need to have a plan for countermeasures,” commented the Bulgarian MEP.
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