The Joint Bulgarian-Macedonian Commission on Historical and Educational Issues will hold its 16th meeting online today and tomorrow, skopje's Sloboden Pechat newspaper reported.
At the previous meeting, which took place in the election period in both countries - in the Republic of Macedonia between the two rounds of local elections and in Bulgaria during the campaign for the presidential and early parliamentary elections, no decisions or recommendations were adopted.
The members of the commission from the Macedonian side informed the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) at the time that no decisions and recommendations had been adopted due to "the exceptional approach of the colleagues from Sofia and their insistence on imposing their views on the past".
Ahead of today's meeting of the Commission, Bulgarian Co-Chair Angel Dimitrov said they would discuss "what has been discussed for five consecutive meetings".
"We are stuck in the 10th-11th century - the end of the First Bulgarian Kingdom, the time of King Samuel and his successors. There is no time left to talk about the joint celebration on both sides of Gotse Delchev, says Dimitrov.
Speaking to BNT, he added that Macedonian historians were not ready to work "on the principles of any science - citing and respecting facts and sources". He also made political comments on relations between Skopje and Sofia.
I want to say that the Republic of Northern Macedonia is ready to start negotiations, but I see no reason for that, said Dimitrov, according to whom Bulgaria's position towards the country is "perfectly clear", but the question is how well it is presented and whether anyone wants to understand.
The Bulgarian-Macedonian Joint Commission was established in accordance with the Agreement on Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation between the two countries signed in 2017. This is the last fifth meeting of the commission this year.
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