Skopje, 28 May 2025 (MIA) – To date, there has been no comment from the Office of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev regarding a possible meeting with President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova within the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague, said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski.

Mickoski pointed out that for now the only comment has been through the media, i.e. the statement of MEP Andrey Kovatchev, who comes from the sister party GERB, which could be interpreted as a rejection.

"We have not received any comment from Radev's Office. Only through the media, if it can be interpreted as a rejection, i.e. the statement of MEP Andrey Kovatchev, who comes from the sister party GERB, who says that Bulgaria does not need any mediation, and therefrom, we can interpret that they are practically rejecting the open offer, which was made here in Skopje by the Austrian Foreign Minister," Mickoski said in response to a reporters' questions at Wednesday's press briefing on the employment action plan.  

Asked to comment on President Siljanovska Davkova's creative proposal over a so-called third protocol regarding the history commission, Mickoski said he would not comment publicly on creative proposals. 

"I would not comment publicly on creative proposals, I will refrain. I would focus on what is now a fact before us, i.e. this resolution of the European Parliament, which for the first time in a historical sense has a goal and repeats it in the text itself several times, some media in our eastern neighbour have counted it four times. The fact is the centuries-old distinct Macedonian identity and the distinct Macedonian language whose international codification of 80 years ago we celebrated the other day," said Mickoski. 

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