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Regarding the respect of human rights in Bulgaria and Macedonia, everything is in our favour. We are 14:0 ahead. This is what North Macedonian Prime Minister Christian Mitkoski said in an interview with Al Jazeera, BGNES reported.
On the issue of the inclusion of Bulgarians in the Constitution, Mickoski said that the government's position is clear and unchanged. The prime minister demanded answers to two questions - "what is the reason for the inclusion of several hundred Bulgarians in the Constitution and what does North Macedonia get as a state".
"It is alleged that someone's rights are prohibited or restricted because they are not part of the preamble of the Constitution. If this is so, who is the European institution that monitors whose rights are restricted and whether there are violations. That is the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. If you follow the verdicts in the region, you come to the conclusion that there have been 14 verdicts by this authoritative institution for the Macedonian community in Bulgaria - that it has no rights, its rights are restricted or its rights are violated. At the same time, there is not a single verdict for the Bulgarian community in Macedonia. That makes 14:0. This is not the reason (for the condition of listing Bulgarians). Let's see what the reason is and what we get," Mickoski said, adding, "Is this the last demand to be met?"
"Since the beginning of the 1990s we have been hearing that this is the last demand: we changed the flag, the banknotes, the territorial distribution in the country, there was a military conflict, we changed the Constitution several times. The message from Brussels has always been: do this and you will be first in class. Unfortunately, all these things have passed and we are still sitting in the corridor waiting for someone to open the door for us to start negotiating", the Macedonian prime minister said.
Mickoski said that "this policy must be stopped and that he entered politics "not to get rich, but to leave a historical mark by defending the interests of the Macedonian people".
"The Macedonian people have done everything like no other people and now it is Brussels' turn to do something in return," he added.
The prime minister pointed out that the government had proposed a "postponed change of the constitution".
"If there really is a desire in Brussels for our country and our citizens to be part of the European family, then there is a way. We have proposed a solution - a deferred implementation of this condition. We can start this process, but let's finish it when the ratification of the membership protocol starts in the parliaments of the 27 EU countries. Forgive me, but we have done enough. Now it is your turn to do something for one of the smallest nations in Europe, and that is the Macedonian people." I BGNES
