SkopjeDiem Macedonia in English
Skopje and Sofia are negotiating but they are far from a solution on paper. On Sunday, information arrived from Bulgaria that there will be no visit. Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov and Government representatives will not visit North Macedonia on 22 May. The reasons are neither technical nor the agenda of the two PMs, but rather expectations not fulfilled by Skopje, the Chief of Petkov’s Cabinet, Lena Borislavova, said. “There will be no soon visit because we don’t have a document on which we can work on the basis of the Good-Neighbourliness Treaty, so, as the Macedonian side confirmed yesterday, the intergovernmental conference is postponed until we see steps related to the meeting of the criteria, with understanding and with actions proving there will be discrimination of the Bulgarian ethnic minority,” she told the Bulgarian public broadcaster. Borislavova revealed the Bulgarian public shouldn’t be worried that Petkov would yield to the increasingly stronger pressures from abroad to solve the matter with Skopje.
