Skopje, 26 November 2022 (MIA) - I am open to talk, to sit down and discuss, our interest is for the Bulgarian community to be established, integrated and in excellent relations with all other communities in the country, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani told Bulgarian Nova portal. “I think that it is necessary to talk with the Bulgarian community, I plan to have such a dialogue with the initiators of the clubs to see are their goals. If the goal is for the Bulgarian community to have its own organizations and clubs to represent itself, if the idea is to better establish the Bulgarian community or if the idea is to integrate Bulgarian community into the system, to stop possible discriminatory policies towards it. Let's see what are the best ways to do this. I don't think that this will be achieved by angering the public,” Osmani said. Speaking about the damage to the "Tsar Boris the Third" cultural club in Ohrid, Osmani said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was among the first institutions to react and condemned those events. “We considered those events to be provocations that try to worsen relations, to hijack the relations between our two countries. I expect the authorities of the state, the Ministry of the Interior to identify them so that we can see who exactly is behind those provocations and who are those malicious people who are trying to worsen our relations,” Osmani said. Osmani said that as a government they had reservations regarding the name chosen by that club, because he thinks it is a provocation for our relations. “This is how the role of these historical figures in our country is perceived. But regardless of the name and views, no one in this country should be subject to attacks, especially not violent ones. We have zero tolerance for attacks especially on smaller communities. No one justifies violence regardless of the name, there are ways to overcome those differences, the feeling of provocation that our citizens have regarding those names. There is a new legal solution, we can talk to the initiators of those clubs to see how we can turn their ideas for opening clubs into bridges of cooperation. Violence cannot be the answer, and I ask the state to react most vigorously, and I think it is doing that,” Osmani said. He assessed the Macedonian-Bulgarian relations in recent weeks as "aftershocks" of the great earthquake in the relations we had in the last two or three years. “If we look at the main lines of cooperation, the trends are positive. Yes, there are problems and challenges, but we are here to overcome them,” Osmani said.