Skopje, 30 June 2022 (MIA) – VMRO-DPMNE has not received the modified French proposal and wants the Government to publish the document at its website. Party leader Hristijan Mickoski told a press conference late on Thursday that according to their information, the modified proposal is nothing but a couple of altered words from the document that has been recently circulating in the public. “We have neither seen nor read this modified proposal but based on the information we have, it is nothing else but two altered words that differ from the proposal that has been recently circulating in the public. Therefore, if the Macedonian diplomacy was in knockout, it now is in a prolonged knockout,” Mickoski told reporters after a meeting of the VMRO-DPMNE Executive Committee. He said they have not received any invitation while adding that the proposal was not even distributed to Cabinet members, as per VMRO-DPMNE information. “The least Kovachevski should have done tonight is upload the proposal at the Government website. If we see the proposal there, then everyone can give an opinion, since they say a broad debate is to take place. However, the information I have is that the proposal was not even distributed to the Government ministers at this evening’s session. Isn’t this sufficient proof of a diplomatic knockout and capitulation,” said Mickoski. According to him, it is symptomatic that the French proposal was immediately accepted by the Bulgarian top officials, whereas Albanian PM Edi Rama knew that the proposal is acceptable for the Macedonian people. “VMRO-DPMNE will never accept a solution that is detrimental to the people and the future of Macedonia,” said Mickoski and added they would not accept a constitutional revision towards incorporating Bulgarian demands, even at the price of his political career. He noted that the party’s red lines were the Macedonian language without any conditions or footnotes. “We will not accept that the Macedonian language is nothing other than Macedonian language in the negotiating framework or other EU documents. No footnotes, no unilateral statements, no additions. Any protocols, including the Friendship Treaty, cannot be part of the negotiating framework,” said Mickoski.