Every politician should bear responsibility for what he declares. Such statements are the least European and do not at all go in favor of such a beautiful event as this one today, said the Minister of Culture Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojchevska at today's opening of the Cultural and Information Center of Bulgaria in Skopje, answering a journalist's question regarding the irredentist statements of the Bulgarian MP and leader of the nationalist party Prerodba, Kostadin Kostadinov.

Kostadinov, who attended today's opening of the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Center, said at the beginning of this month that "Macedonia is the second Bulgarian state on the Balkan Peninsula" and advocated "unification" of the country with Bulgaria.

Rebirth is working on the unification of the two Bulgarian state formations into one common state. The path to this unification is complete economic, cultural and political integration, which will lead to the restoration of the broken unity of the Bulgarian nation and will make Bulgaria the largest and strongest country in Southeast Europe, Kostadinov said on that occasion.

Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to Kostadinov's statement, which sent a verbal note to Sofia, assessing that such attitudes are directly contrary to the spirit of the Treaty of Friendship, the essence of which is mutual respect as a basis for promoting good neighborly relations, and are not in the spirit of European values ​​and our common Euro-Atlantic alliance.

Requesting the competent institutions and political representatives in Bulgaria to disassociate themselves and condemn this hate speech, which indisputably contains territorial claims against the country, the MFA in its reaction recalled that last month it sent a verbal note to the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the occasion of the statements of Kostadinov during the constituent session of the National Assembly of Bulgaria.

In the note dated October 21, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the content of Kostadinov's statement in the Assembly in Sofia, in which irredentist and territorial claims against the country are publicly expressed.