The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia obliged the Ministry of the Interior to take all necessary measures to ensure the commemoration of Gotse Delchev's anniversary on February 4 in Skopje.

On this basis, the Ministry of the Interior will make decisions to preserve peace and stability, and above all to preserve our national interests - our identity, the right to self-determination and the dignity of the citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia, said the country's Minister of Internal Affairs, Oliver Spasovski.

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Yesterday, the government of North Macedonia made decisions on the celebration of February 4, the day of commemoration of the 151st anniversary of the birth of Gotse Delchev, which the Security Council to the President of the country announced as a "high security risk" event. 

"Our main priority will be to maintain peace and security during the commemoration because it is not good to disrupt political relations both in the state and with the neighbors."

We know that there are radical structures that, for personal, political or other interests, want to disrupt this process of stabilization of relations with the neighbors on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must not allow the security of our citizens to be violated," Spasovski pointed out. .

According to him, the Ministry of the Interior works together with the security services and all the information and analyzes that are made will also determine the decisions to act on February 4, and "for every decision there is a moment and a time".

Stevo Pendarovski insists that Bulgarian MEPs and politicians be banned from joining the RSM

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Angel Dzambazki is a Bulgarian nationalist and politician, deputy chairman of "VMRO - he will be returned if he comes to the border of the Republic of North Macedonia on February 4, as he himself stated to the Bulgarian media, Spasovski's answer was: We will decide on February 4.

The upcoming celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Gotse Delchev on February 4 created tension in North Macedonia immediately after the Macedonia Foundation announced on their Facebook page that buses would come from Bulgaria with people wishing to worship at the grave of Gotse Delchev in the yard of the "St. Spas" church in Skopje.

The media in the Republic of North Macedonia spread the post on the Facebook profile of Alexander Pandov from VMRO-DPMNE, in which he wrote that he and the Patriotic Institute of VMRO-DPMNE will be there "from early dawn, because Gotse is Macedonia and Macedonia is Gotse!" 

"Respect Gotse as a Macedonian, born in Macedonia and nothing else!" wrote Pandov. 

At a meeting of the Security Council under the President of the Republic of North Macedonia on Monday, which Stevo Pendarovski convened, February 4 was designated as a day of "high security risk", and Pendarovski announced that he had proposed to the government "one MEP and others persons from Bulgaria" should not be allowed to enter the country.

Despite the expectation of the media, after yesterday's meeting of the government of North Macedonia, no information about such a decision was announced.

In 2022, a group of young people tore the tricolor from the summer wreaths that the Bulgarian delegation, led by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Teodora Genchovska, laid on the grave of Gotse Delchev, shortly after the delegation left the Church of St. Spas in Skopje. for which the Bulgarian embassy in Skopje sent a note. 

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