The Serbian ambassador escaped the questions of BGNES about the aggressive policy of Belgrade against the Bulgarian minority.
Ambassador Zeljko Jovic refused to comment on Belgrade's accusations against Bulgaria of espionage, confiscation of books, non-admission of Bulgarians to the region of the Western outskirts, including former diplomats.
On November 8, the Serbian regime again demonstrated and used terror against the Bulgarians from the Western outskirts, as on the "Day of the Western suburbs" Serbian state security officers first broke into the office of the "Bosilegrad Cultural and Information Center", and then seized books from Edvin Sugarev, who is a former consul in the city of Nis. At the same time, the border police did not allow Edvin Sugarev himself to enter the territory of Serbia and attend the presentation of his book in the club of the CIC "Bosilegrad" this evening. After a thorough search of all the premises of the Center, 23 copies of Edvin Sugarev's book were seized.
Later, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia in Sofia, Zeljko Jovic, and the Bulgarian side expressed a strong protest and strong concern regarding the hostile actions of the Serbian authorities towards the Bulgarian intellectual. , widely known also in the Republic of Serbia as the former Consul General in Niš, who was not allowed on Serbian territory.
Later, the officers of the serbian ecret service "raised a charge of ethnic, racial and religious hatred" against the director of CIC-Bosilegrad, Ivan Nikolov.
At the same time, Serbian pro-government media exaggerate a spy scandal. They claim that in a Bulgarian arrested for espionage in Bosilegrad, they found documents signed by him for receiving Bulgarian levs, with which he paid "his agents". In a recent report, the European Commission called on Serbia to take urgent action to counter anti-European narratives spread by numerous media outlets and to counter foreign information manipulation and interference, especially in the context of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine./BGNES
