Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said before his visit to Skopje that he did not question the Macedonian identity and language, informed the Russian electronic publication Regnum, which closely follows the events in the Balkans.
The media quoted the Albanian news agency Telegrafi Maqedoni as saying Pektov stressed that he was proud that Bulgaria was the first to recognize Macedonia's independence.
"As it is an independent state, we do not question the identity, the language of Macedonia. This is your right to identity, no one disputes it, "Kiril Petkov was quoted as saying by Regnum, recalling that on January 18 Petkov announced the recognition of the abbreviated name of Macedonia.
The media commented that "the experience of EU countries such as Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary shows that EU enlargement sometimes brings big problems." According to the agency, "the accession of Albania and Kosovo to the EU will be just a mockery of Europe. That is why it is beneficial for the European Union to keep the Western Balkans in a state of disarray, in any way delaying their actual entry into the Union. This achieves the goals of limiting the growing influence of Russia, Turkey and China in the region and creating a "sanitary cordon" in the Balkans against Asian migrants.
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