Macedonia is dedicated to enhancing the relations with Bulgaria but wants solutions not to be imposed in the agreement on neighborliness but the two sides to be equal. At the same time, Sofia should not condition its support for Macedonia’s Euro-integration and let alone open questions about the country’s constitution, Macedonian and Bulgarian experts comment, daily Dnevnik writes.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin stated that the basic differences between the two countries are the ones about the shared history.

“The approach in the negotiations about the agreement is not to impose solutions on force but to aim at a text that the two countries, government and most of all citizens will be comfortable with,” said Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, adding that it is most important for the citizens from both countries to be connected in an economic and infrastructural way and encourage the most positive climate in the bilateral relations.