site.btaParliament Chair Kiselova: No Provocations Should Be Allowed between Bulgaria and North Macedonia

No provocations should be allowed between Bulgaria and North Macedonia, Parlaiment Chair Nataliya Kiselova told journalists. She was attending a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the so-called Bloody Christmas, when thousands of people with Bulgarian identity were killed in Vardar Macedonia, the Bulgarian National Radio said on Saturday.

Kiselova stressed that Sofia insists on Skopje's European integration. 

"Simple provocations can worsen relations between two countries. The Bulgarian state is counting on our neighbours to return to the negotiating table and not to maintain that there should be a renegotiation because this is already a renegotiation with the European Union, not with Bulgaria," Kiselova noted.

"A very difficult year is ahead of us - both in domestic politics and certainly in foreign policy there will be serious changes, but what I think is invariable is that the Republic of Bulgaria should insist on the integration of our neighbours in the European Union", Kiselova further said. 

A screening of journalist Milena Milotinova's documentary "Only Because They Were Bulgarians" took place Thursday evening in the capital and highlighted the events of the so-called Bloody Christmas in Macedonia in 1945.