The Ratification of the Treaty with Macedonia Enters into Two Committees of the Bulgarian Parliament

Two parliamentary committees - the Foreign Policy Committee and the European Affairs and Oversight Committee of the European Funds - will review the ratification of the Treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia on Wednesday 17 January.

In the early afternoon, at 2:30 pm, the foreign policy committee that is leading will consider the draft ratification bill. An hour later, the Committee on European Affairs and Oversight of the European Funds will be presenting, reviewing and adopting the Report on the Bill on the ratification of the Treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia.

The bill was submitted to the Bulgarian Parliament by the Council of Ministers on 8 November 2017 and distributed for the second plenary session. On Monday, Macedonian Parliament ratified the treaty signed by Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Boyko Borisov on 1 August 2017 in Skopje with 61 votes. The treaty guarantees the sustainable building of friendly relations between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia and is a stable basis for cooperation in the region based on European values, was the unanimous assessment of Borisov and Zaev, who spoke on the phone after the ratification by the Macedonian Parliament. The ratification of the treaty by the Macedonian Parliament is a natural continuation of the pragmatic dialogue that our two governments started last year in Skopje with the signing of this treaty and of nine cooperation documents in Strumica during the joint meeting of the two governments, recalled Boyko Borisov . As we have stated many times, the European future of the Republic of Macedonia is one of the main priorities...