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Skopje – I firmly assert that there has never been any pressure from any side to make decisions on sensitive issues. In no case except for the constant and negative public pressure on the Commission’s work, said Dragi Georgiev, president of the Joint Expert Commission on Historical and Educational Issues with Bulgaria, this evening.
– With the experience we have now from six years, I would not undertake to work in such a commission with such a methodology again. Both the Macedonian and the Bulgarian side must reconsider if the work continues, the methodology itself must be changed because this way of working will not yield results, Georgiev said in the news diary on Sitel television.
Explaining his reaction to the assessments made about the Commission’s work by Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, Georgiev said that “the Prime Minister insulted the Commission members, who have worked for six-seven years and who are academic citizens who have managed to build their own integrity in Macedonian society regardless of all the unsubstantiated speculations about their work.”
– And when a statement comes that we have not defended the national interests while knowing very little about the Commission’s work, it is extremely disrespectful and unjust to the members of that commission. When someone who does not know the Commission’s work makes such a superficial statement that we have not defended the interests, then it is an insult to those Commission members and ultimately a continuation of the campaign against the Commission members that they have betrayed the interests of the Macedonian people, said Georgiev.
In a statement on the 26th last month, the Prime Minister announced personnel changes in the Joint Expert Commission on Historical and Educational Issues between North Macedonia and Bulgaria. According to the Prime Minister, the current composition of the Commission from the Macedonian side did not meet expectations and did not protect national interests. (September 3)