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The Commissioner of the European Union for Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, has welcomed today’s vote in the Macedonian assembly, which approved the French proposal to resolve the impasse with Bulgaria.
We are looking forward to the opening of North Macedonia’s membership negotiations, as we meet on Tuesday in Brussels, Varhelyi wrote in a Twitter status. However, a few minutes later the commissioner changed his status. In the new post there is no date for the Intergovernmental Conference, but it states that “North Macedonia belongs to the union”.
I welcome the result of today’s vote after last days of deliberate discussions in Parliament giving clear mandate for Gov’t to start 1st IGC based on FR proposal. We look forward to open accession negotiations with 🇲🇰. #NorthMacedonia belongs to the 🇪🇺
— Oliver Varhelyi (@OliverVarhelyi) July 16, 2022
The proposal was approved with 68 votes in favor and none against today in parliament. Opposition MPs did not participate in the voting process.
The deputies voted for seven conclusions drawn up by the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic League (LSDM), which are related to the guarantees for the Macedonian language and identity.
“The Assembly obliges the Government, through the delegations in the talks, to adhere to the determination to unconditionally respect the language, identity and culture of the Macedonian people, as elements that are not negotiated with the EU. In the framework of the talks, the Macedonian language should be without clarifications, without additions and without footnotes“, it is said, among other things, in the proposal-conclusions that were presented by the Parliamentary Group of SDSM.
The vote comes after this proposal was debated in the Assembly of North Macedonia for three days.
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