site.btaFormer North Macedonia PM Georgievski: It Seems You Have to Hate Bulgarians to be True Macedonian

Former North Macedonia Prime Minister Lupcho Georgievski compared in a Facebook post on Saturday the Bundestag’s resolution on the affirmation of Macedonian identity, language and culture to that of the Comintern in 1934, recalling that such acts were adopted then by the communist leadership of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.

The German Parliament adopted Thursday a resolution in which it recommends the German government to urge Bulgaria to support North Macedonia's EU path within the framework of the compromise reached and to refrain from setting additional conditions. In the document, North Macedonia is invited to implement the agreed change of its constitution and to include ethnic Bulgarians in it.

"Thus, the Macedonian nation is already in the Guinness Book of Records for this type of specific recognition of identity", wrote Georgievski, who specified that "not even the Germans themselves", as well as the English, French, Italians, Americans or Canadians can “boast of such documents”.

"Now I cannot help but wonder at the belittling and ignoring of this resolution by all these defenders of the Macedonian identity. Suddenly it turned out that it does not matter? It seems that to be a true Macedonian you have to hate Bulgarians 100%, even to your own detriment," Georgievski he added.

VMRO-DPMNE Executive Committee member Trajko Slaveski commented on the resolution in an interview with TV 24, saying that he welcomed it, but "if Germany was in a position to somehow prevent another veto imposed by Bulgaria, this would have been done by now" and the document "does not solve the problem of Bulgaria's intentions, which completely deny the identity of the Macedonian people, language and nation".

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski also welcomed the resolution in an interview with Channel 5, describing it as "unequivocal support for North Macedonia's accession to the EU with its identity, language, culture and history as part of the overall mosaic of European culture" and recommended the opposition to reflect on why the resolution was not supported by the "partner and sister parties of VMRO-DPMNE".