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Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry summons North Macedonia's Ambassador over Ohrid incident 

Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry summons North Macedonia's Ambassador over Ohrid incident 
Skopje, 24 November 2022 (MIA) - North Macedonia's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Agnesa Rusi-Popovska will be summoned Thursday at the Foreign Ministry in Sofia where she will be handed over a strongly worded protest note following the vandalization of the Tsar Boris III Bulgarian cultural club in Ohrid. Bulgarian diplomats yesterday evening in detail informed top European Commission officials about the Ohrid incident, MIA's Sofia correspondent reports. On Wednesday, the Macedonian Foreign Ministry condemned the vandalism in which a glass window of the Bulgarian club in Ohrid was broken earlier in the day. "The Foreign Ministry of North Macedonia strongly condemns the act of vandalism, in which the glass windows of the citizens' club in Ohrid had been broken with the use of a firearm. The fact that such acts happened in a short period of time having in mind that only a few days ago, on November 20, we'd witnessed yet another act of vandalism when the club's front window was damaged. Such incidents are unacceptable, they could put at risk human lives all the while reinforcing retrograde processes that are not in line with the European integration efforts of the country," the Ministry said in a statement. Ohrid police spokesman Stefan Dimoski told MIA that at 7:12 pm on Wednesday, it was reported to the police that a window of the office of the Tsar Boris III Association had been damaged. Searching the site, police officers determined that the glass of the front door and the front window of the office had been damaged by a firearm.