On September 8, 1991, the peaceful separation of Macedonia from Yugoslavia was formalized following a referendum in which a majority of the republic's citizens voted for an independent state. On January 15, 1992, Bulgaria was the first in the world to recognize the independence of the state called the Republic of Macedonia back then, according to its first constitution.
This happened thanks to the efforts of Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev. Late in the evening Prime Minister Filip Dimitrov announced that the government had decided to recognize the independence of four former Yougoslav republics - Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On February 22, 1999, a Declaration of Good Neighborliness between Bulgaria and Macedonia was signed in Sofia by the then Prime Minister Ivan Kostov and his counterpart Lyubcho Georgievski.
The European Union must remain united and predictable in its overall support for Ukraine, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said in his speech at the second emergency meeting on Ukraine, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, announced..
Public organizations in Bulgaria have announced a second day of boycott of grocery chains for February 20 , after reporting the success of the first such initiative in our country. On the first day of the boycott, according to data from the..
The Bulgaria Parliament will hear today the Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev about a "questionnaire" prepared by the US on topics related to Bulgaria's readiness to participate in a special military..
A serious train crash involving a train owned by the Bulgarian company PIMK has occurred near Craiova, Romania. According to initial information, the..
Sofia Airport has been officially renamed to Vasil Levski Airport at a solemn ceremony on February 19 . The ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister..
BNB Governor Dimitar Radev will sign the request for an extraordinary convergence report on the fulfillment of the criteria for eurozone membership. This..
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