If we allow ourselves to enter a contest of power, a contest of age as nations, then we run away from the basic law of international relations that every country is equal in the international legal order if it is recognized by the United Nations, Stefan Andonovski, Secretary for International Cooperation of VMRO-DPMNE said on the show “Analysis 24” on TV 24.

The problem with our representatives is that we do not know the positions of Macedonia and what we want from these negotiations with Bulgaria, nor what is the goal of our Macedonian side. We have a problem with identity issues with Bulgaria, and the cooperation in other areas existed before the good neighborly and cooperation agreement from 2017, but without any request from Bulgaria to the Macedonian language and history, said Andonovski.

Andonovski stressed that if the EU made more serious political pressure to resolve these issues and Macedonia to start negotiations with the EU, then this percentage of anti-Western sentiment in Macedonia would be lower, because we would directly see the benefits.