Blockades on the road to Skopje organised in social networks in N Macedonia against Bulgarians going to the celebrations of the 151st birth anniversary of revolutionary Gotse Delchev

Blockades on the road to Skopje against the Bulgarians who want to go North Macedonia for the celebrations of the 151st anniversary of the birth of Gotse Delchev on February 4 are organized on social networks in the Republic of North Macedonia, cited by Infomax.

According to the posts, blockades are being prepared on the roads to Skopje after the border crossings at Deve Bair and Delchevo. "All patriotic people are urged to come with trucks, tractors, cars and other equipment to participate in the protest". The protest will start on 4 February at 8:00 local time. The people of Kumanovo are urged to block the road to the capital, reads the appeal.

The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Dimitar Kovacevski, told the Assembly that measures would be taken to ensure order and public order on 4 February, which marks the birth of the Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev, whose remains are in the St. Spas Church in Skopje, taken there by the Bulgarian communist regime in 1947.

North Macedonia’s foreign ministry has called on the security services to ban the Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki from the Republic of North Macedonia territory, and before that President Stevo Pendarovski said that a Bulgarian MEP and other Bulgarian citizens should be put on a ban list. Foundations from Bulgaria are organising buses of people willing to go to Skopje to honour the memory of Gotse Delchev.

The developments come amid the brutal beating of the secretary of the Bulgarian cultural club "Tsar Boris the Third" in Ohrid, Hristian Pendikov. The Republic of North Macedonia considers this incident closed to the EU, with the visit of Bujar Osmani to Sofia, he himself explained yesterday to the Assembly MPs.

The Bulgarian side is far from believing so, suspending international projects with Skopje, summoning the Bulgarian ambassador for consultations and informing European partners. In a telephone conversation with the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, on January 26, President Radev called on the European Union to ensure that the rights and safety of the Bulgarians in North Macedonia are respected with the same vigour with which it had been pushing for the acceleration of its European integration.