A few days after Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin said in his interview with the Bulgarian television 24 Casa that it was good that the poor dialogue between the two countries was being stimulated with rational talks rather than with harsh monologues in media, the public in both countries became upset again, this time round over the topic of taking Macedonian soldiers in the Bulgarian army, Nova Makedonija comments.

Nikolay Tsonev, former Bulgarian minister of defense and now leader of the New Alternative political party, denounced Thursday the Bulgarian authorities, which, according to him, are going to let Macedonian soldiers become part of the Bulgarian army only based on their Bulgarian citizenship.

“The reaction and response to the Macedonian soldiers are absurd. To put it mildly, it is incomprehensible to give foreign citizens the responsibility of protecting the fundamental Bulgarian patriotic values,” Tsonev says.