Responding to the question of how he would comment on the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry's declaration of last night, which says that Skopje is moving away from EU membership, Nikolovski said. They don't have the capacity to form a government, they can't even find members for it", Nikolovski added.
Prime Minister Christian Mickoski's right-hand man said the Macedonia issue was being abused in Bulgaria during the election campaign and reiterated that they would wait for a regular government to negotiate.
According to Nikolovski, the rail link between Bulgaria and Morth Macedonia, which is part of corridor 8, will probably never be realised.
BGNES news agency recalls that the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry reacted sharply to another anti-Bulgarian and anti-European statement by Prime Minister Christian Mickoski, who said he wanted a renegotiation of the French proposal and said he would not talk to Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev's caretaker cabinet.
It should be clear to the government in Skopje that attempts to launch ideas for renegotiation of already made international commitments can only lead to a further delay in the start of the EU membership negotiations", the foreign ministry stressed, adding:
"This position of ours will not change regardless of whether a caretaker or a regular government is in power. We remind that as a result of unnecessary provocations and confrontation with neighbouring countries, North Macedonia has already lost too much time in the process of opening accession negotiations", the Foreign Ministry is adamant.
"The caretaker government of the Republic of Bulgaria is a legitimate government that has all the prerogatives to govern the country. It remains open to dialogue with North Macedonia, while stressing that, whether conducted with the caretaker or the regular Bulgarian government, the dialogue does not include renegotiation of commitments already made by Skopje," the foreign ministry said. | BGNES
