Tragedy in Kocani main topic of meeting Siljanovska Davkova – Radev, also discussed European integration

President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova met today with the head of the Bulgarian state of Rumen Radev as part of the « Akaba Process Balkan 3 » in Sofia. The focus of the meeting was put on the tragedy in Kocani, but also discussed unblocking our European integration path, in which direction the two concluded that more frequent meetings were necessary. The president stressed that compromises are possible and expects a step forward in that plan, MIA reports from Sofia.

In a statement to the media after the conference, President Siljanovska Davkova, in recognition of Radev, noted that he was the first president to make aid after the tragedy in Kocani.

« I said at the meeting that the attitude of the Bulgarian people, Bulgarian citizens and all in the region, after him, the Serbian, Albanian President and everyone else, imagine how nice it is in such a terrible world to be faced with a rush of solidarity and humanism and everyone is offering you, then you have no help.

She recalled that she visited the injured Macedonian citizens at the Pirogov Hospital in Sofia, noting that progress was made in their condition.

-If the Bulgarian citizens in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna waited with rows to give blood and help, I had duty to visit the injured at the hospital first. I also have no words about the Minister of Health who welcomed me, both for the director of the hospital and the more deficit that was there, and I met Macedonian doctors working in the hospital. I had the opportunity to see the parents as well, the good news is that there is a lot of progress, I think it will be even greater these days, so that was the main topic of the meeting with Radev – she said, adding that the tragedy brings people together and that citizens will not forget their solidarity.

The president said that the meeting also discussed the problem that exists with Bulgaria.

-We also talked about the Akaba process, but also about our problem that exists political. This is not the time or place, but we have concluded that ministers and presidents need to be met, but most importantly you journalists and people from culture, students, to see that Bulgarian progress is ours, that regional progress is ours – our president said.

The president stressed that compromises are possible and that he expects a step forward on the issue.

-We represent the citizens, my legitimacy springs from the citizens and as a professor of constitutional law I cannot forget about the theory of the mandate -that I have the right to do what I have been given a mandate in the elections from the citizens, but of course there are possible compromises here I expect to step down -the president underlined.

President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev and the King of the Jordan Hashemitic Kingdom, Abdullah II participated in Sofia today at a meeting of Heads of States and Government of the Akaba Process.

Otherwise, the last meeting between Siljanovska-Davkova and Radev was on the sidelines of the Climate Change Conference-Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, last November.

Then the President’s office informed that the need to promote Macedonian-Bulgarian relations, overcoming open issues between the two countries, as well as the opportunities for deepening and dynamizing bilateral cooperation in many areas of mutual interest was discussed.

Bulgarian President Radev, meanwhile, pointed to the need to quickly resolve open issues, as well as the need to establish good relations in all areas of mutual interest for easier understanding.