The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is using “the full diplomatic capacity, existing means and channels of communication with European institutions and all our international partners” to defend Bulgaria’s position on North Macedonia, Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev said.
The Foreign Ministry has instructed all Bulgarian embassies and permanent missions abroad to hold meetings at the highest level to present Bulgaria’s vision on this issue, reports “Mediapool”.
Georgiev, in response to a parliamentary question from the PP-DB, stressed that Bulgaria had already warned that the possible cancellation of the protocol from the second meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission of North Macedonia and Bulgaria would “represent a unilateral rejection by North Macedonia of a key element of the July 2022 agreements with all the ensuing consequences for the candidate country’s European path.”
The 2022 European Consensus was reflected in the North Macedonia negotiating framework. According to the protocol, signed on 17 July 2022 in Sofia by the Foreign Ministers of North Macedonia and Bulgaria, Bujar Osmani and Teodora Gençovska, for Macedonia to start genuine EU membership negotiations, it must include Bulgarians in the constitution and make progress in resolving disputed historical issues./Telegraph/