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The amendments to the constitution (of the Republic of North Macedonia) will finally put an end to the thesis that it is about one people in two countries, for the first time in the constitution besides the Macedonians will be clearly distinguished and the Bulgarians, so that once an end is put to this thesis, the Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovachevski told journalists in Moldova. where today he participated in the Summit of the European Political Community, BTA reported.

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According to him, North Macedonia needs political decisions to allow the opening of clusters from negotiations with the European Union, while the country's strategic goal is full EU membership by 2030 and the planned meeting with the chairman of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, Hristijan Mickoski, aims to make decisions that will ensure a better future for citizens. Kovachevski reiterated the positions of diplomats from EU countries and US Senator Chris Murphy that there is no possibility the country's negotiating framework, adopted by 27 EU member states, to be the subject of new negotiations.

The inclusion of the Bulgarians in the Constitution of the Republic of North Macedonia is enshrined in the negotiating framework and is a condition for continuing the country's negotiations for membership in the European Union, but it can be changed by a two-thirds majority in the 120-member parliament in Skopje, and the government does not have the necessary votes because VMRO-DPMNE is categorical, They will not vote on these changes.

Dimitar Kovachevski will participate in the second meeting of the European Political Community in Chisinau

Political parties and MPs in Parliament have the duty and responsibility to citizens to make decisions that enable a better future and a better standard of living for present and future generations. North Macedonia needs integration into the European Union, not isolation, I am a rational optimist, I believe in the goal and I am working to achieve it, Kovachevski said at the end of the European Community summit in Chisinau, adding that if the constitutional changes do not happen, the country will return in the period from 2006 to 2016 and instead of integration will fall into isolation.

Meanwhile, VMRO-DPMNE Chairman Hristijan Mickoski reiterated that "in this composition of parliament and under Bulgarian diktat" the opposition party's deputies will not vote on the constitutional changes, and his agenda at the upcoming leadership meeting, which he claims he has not received an invitation, is what will happen when the constitutional changes do not get the required majority. to be voted on in the country's parliament.

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