site.btaFormer Macedonian Foreign Minister: Non-Paper Exchanged between Sofia and Skopje

“We have information that there is a non-paper which is exchanged between Skopje and Sofia and with which the prime ministers and the foreign ministers of the two countries are familiar,” said in a televised interview Antonio Milososki, chairman of the foreign policy committee in North Macedonia’s parliament and former foreign minister in the VMRO-DPMNE government.

Earlier on Thursday he said that his opposition party had sent a request to Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski to appear before the foreign policy committee and present the draft documents on which the governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia are negotiating.

According to Milososki, the Bulgarian Government is providing explanations, whether summoned by President Rumen Radev or in the Bulgarian Parliament, and Bulgaria is building a common position. Whereas the government of Dimitar Kovacevski does not appear before North Macedonia’s parliament. "I believe that this could be good for the government itself and for the process. A government which is hiding something from MPs is hiding something from the public as well,” said Milososki.

According to him, concessions “should be tied to EU membership and not to the negotiations on EU accession”.