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Bulgaria has not imposed veto on North Macedonia in EU, says President Radev

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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that Sofia had never imposed a veto on North Macedonia on its path to the EU, BGNES reported.

Radev gave a joint press conference in Tirana with North Macedonian President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova and Albanian host Bajram Begaj after the Meeting of the Heads of State of the South-East European Cooperation Process countries.

“There is a Treaty on Good Neighborhood, Friendship and Cooperation from 2017 and two protocols to it. There is a Negotiating Framework from 2022, a European consensus of all member states and the government of North Macedonia, so Bulgaria has never set and will not set conditions outside this agreement, outside the negotiating framework and outside the two protocols,” Radev said.

"What we want to see is real respect for human rights. We have been waiting for 3 years for the accession process to begin and for negotiations with North Macedonia to begin, including with constitutional changes," the Bulgarian president emphasized.


Edited by Ivo Ivanov
English publication: R. Petkova


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