Skopje, 11 August 2022 (MIA) - The Justice Ministry said Thursday it hasn't received any request to approve a procedure for the registration of the Tsar Boris III Association in North Macedonia. The Ministry's press release comes as a result of the backlash by the Jewish Community and the Fund of the Holocaust of the Jews from Macedonia, saying they are appalled and insulted by the registration of the Tsar Boris III Association in Ohrid and by "the easiness by which Nazism and fascism are glorified in the country and by which hate speech is spread." Calling it a clear provocation, the two associations in a joint reaction also said it is an insult to the Jewish community, an insult to the Macedonian state and its citizens. "Or perhaps, someone thinks differently, that by promoting fascism and Nazism good neighborly relations are strengthened!?" The name of Tsar Boris III is synonymous with the elimination of Jews from the territories occupied by fascist Bulgaria during Second World War, said the two associations. "Tsar Boris III and the government of tsarist Bulgaria are the direct culprits for the deportation of over 11,300 Jews from the occupied territories in Macedonia, Greece and Serbia, including 7,144 Macedonian Jews to the Treblinka concentration camp in occupied Poland," they said. Boris III, originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver, was named "the Tsar of Bulgarians" on October 3, 1918 following the abdication of his father Ferdinand after Bulgaria had suffered a defeat in World War I. Under his rule, Bulgaria had joined the Axis of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and militarist Japan. Boris III in April 1941 allowed German forces from the territory of Bulgaria to launch an aggression against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a reward, Bulgaria was handed over territories from the dissolved Yugoslavian state and Greece, including what is now North Macedonia. The Bulgarian tsar died unexpectedly in August 1943, aged 49, shortly after his visit to meet with Hitler.