Osmani: Political centers place fake news about decisions of history commission for daily political purposes
Skopje, 18 August 2022 (MIA) – Negative reactions to the agreed solutions of the joint multidisciplinary commission on historical and educational issues are the result of deliberately placed fake news by political centers, in order to use the debate for daily political purposes, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said Thursday.
“North Macedonia these days has been turned into a center of fake news. I can most responsibly say that 95 percent of all the speculation, of all the information regarding the French proposal, regarding the Protocol, regarding the commission’s decisions are deliberately placed fake news by political centers in order to take advantage of the sensitive character of this debate for daily political purposes,” Osmani told Kanal 5 TV.
According to him, the main problem is that certain politicians, at any cost, even for issues that are most essential for the country, are making calculations centered only from the aspect of whether they in power or not.
“It’s important to listen to each other. I think we’re not listening to each other in this debate. I think we’re anchored in the positions, in the political views, and we don’t listen to the arguments at all. The history commission comes out today and says – give arguments for these theses that you give against the solutions. But no one gives arguments. It has become a new trend to be a critic. But that’s not the reality. Unfortunately, the problem is that we don’t listen to each other, it’s not that we’re not saying enough,” Osmani added.
According to him, wrong perception has been created in the public that historians from the Bulgarian part of the joint history commission have expressed a sense of triumphalism regarding the agreed solutions.
“It is a marginal group of historians in the Republic of Bulgaria who are on the margins of the political debate and are provocatively positioned towards this process. They are deliberately trying to do exactly that, because there is absolutely no sense of triumphalism in the Republic of Bulgaria,” Osmani pointed out.
He stressed that the decisions of the commission presented to the public this week have been agreed since 2019 and have been approved by the former foreign minister Nikola Dimitrov.
“There were no new decisions in the meantime. They refer to issues from the ancient period on which there were not much differences between the two countries,” Osmani added.
