President Stevo Pendarovski commented on the statements of the Bulgarian Technical Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nikolai Milkov and allegations that in the former Yugoslavia there was organized, state repression against people who felt they were Bulgarians.

"He doesn't know history, because you didn't go to Goli otok because someone was Macedonian or Bulgarian, but whether you were for Tito or Stalin," says Pendarovski in an interview on the "Top Topic" show on "Telma" television, which in its entirety will air tomorrow.

Milkov previously accused that hundreds of Bulgarians, i.e. people with an alleged Bulgarian identity, ended up on Goli Otok, compared to the 12 boys killed in the Macedonian village of Vatasha by the Bulgarian fascist occupier in 1943.

To Milkov's accusations that the Macedonian president was covering up the state's policies for discrimination against Macedonian Bulgarians, Pendarovski answered briefly: "Give evidence!"