"I am used to insults and provocations. My whole life has been like this, but somehow, I always win in the end. We'll see how it goes in this case. I want us as Balkan countries to follow the example of the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, so that all together with bridges built we can present ourselves well everywhere in the world and to EU officials and build a good neighborly policy."
This is what the Prime Minister of North Macedonia and leader of the VMRO-DPMNE party Hristijan Mickoski said when asked what his opinion was on the meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, BGNES reports.
BGNES reminds that on July 2nd Bulgarian President Rumen Radev had a work meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. After the meeting Radev said the following:
"The state leadership of North Macedonia is not ready. Knowledge of international law is necessary. An international treaty, when signed, must be implemented by all subsequent governments. They have no knowledge of constitutional law. Their constitution protects collective rights, and our model protects individual rights, clearly, they have no knowledge of European law either." Prime Minister Mitsotakis also expressed a similar view.
The Macedonian prime minister claims that "humiliation and insults are not the way to go".
"I thought that now, in the 21st century, we would talk about how together we could develop a common economy, education, tourism, bring our peoples closer. I am ready to talk about it, but who am I to tell them what to do? Sorry that they get to see a change in policy here," said Mickoski.
The VMRO-DPMNE leader said that "the time has passed when we had politicians with no backbone who signed everything without protecting the interest of the Macedonian people".
He said that North Macedonia's neighbors "have to get used to politicians who work for the good of their homeland".
"My message to both is that we are a peaceful people, and we are ready to cooperate with everyone, but we see this as a two-way street," the North Macedonian prime minister concluded. | BGNES
