I have always believed solutions can be found at the negotiating table. Present and future generations will not forgive Bulgaria or the Republic of Macedonia if they failed to reach a compromise that would introduce a perspective, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said Thursday in Sofia at a meeting with Vlado Buckovski, the government’s special representative for Bulgaria.

In order to find a sustainable and lasting solution to the remaining open issues in the mutual relations, a pragmatic, honest and well-intentioned approach is needed, expressed in concrete activities. Mutual trust requires strict and irreversible fulfillment of all obligations under the 2017 Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation, Borisov said at the meeting.

According to him, Bulgaria has always respected Euro-Atlantic values and that is why the topic of the European perspective of the Western Balkans was put first during the Bulgarian EU presidency.

So far, Bulgaria has made every effort to integrate the Western Balkan countries into NATO and the EU, and in that context, as a result of Bulgaria’s support for Macedonia’s EU future, the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation was signed, Borisov added.

Buckovski met with Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva in Sofia yesterday and said after the meeting that he acknowledged that trust between the two sides had been disturbed.

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