Skopje, 11 April 2026 (MIA) – Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has said he expected increasing international recognition of the government’s consistent policy after the UN Human Rights Committee concluded Bulgaria had violated freedom of association. However, he noted, I don’t believe that our eastern neighbour could change its position without a strong and robust action by Brussels and major EU member countries.

Speaking at a news conference Saturday, Mickoski said his government’s policy has been consistent for two years providing solid arguments of its stance on the international scene.

Decision after a decision, he said, all of the thesis and fears we’ve been having as a government are being confirmed. “All those who believe that our challenges will end once the Constitution’s preamble is changed are lying to themselves or they don’t understand politics or they are spineless who work in favor of someone else’s interests.”

Asked to comment on the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision concluding Bulgaria had violated freedom of association and asked whether it would produce some effect, Mickoski said it would, adding he doesn’t expect it to affect Bulgaria’s politics especially not in the midst of an election campaign.

“Decision after decision our thesis is being confirmed. Unfortunately, in the past, we had spineless politicians regarding the Macedonian identity policy and they had accepted literally everything believing by doing so they would remain in power longer,” stated Mickoski calling it “a period of crime, of shame, of treason and of everything that is Macedonian.”

In the period to come, the PM said, we expect more such decisions, but I don’t believe our eastern neighbour could change its position without a strong and robust action by Brussels and major EU member countries.

“I believe we have the right arguments, they are being confirmed on the international scene. If you’d heard one of the interviews of Bulgaria’s former president Rumen Radev, who now runs for prime minister, in which he said he had blocked Macedonia twice from opening negotiations, then everything is clear. Everyone who believes the stories that if we changed the Constitution’s preamble, if we added the change, all of our challenges would end, they are lying to themselves,” said Mickoski.

Unfortunately, he said, there are still politicians here who with their spineless policies have been undermining the positions built by this government with hard work, but I expect in the coming parliamentary elections, these politicians and that political party to finally disappear from the Macedonian political scene.

Фото: МИА