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Marriage quarrel mutates to the bilateral conflict
Macedonia and neighbouring Bulgaria lie in the clinch with each other. Occasion for it has given a private family affair.
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The quarrel of a divorced married couple seriously threatens the relations between the neighbouring states Macedonia and Bulgaria. Bulgaria has threatened even officially to block other approaches of Macedonia to the EU and NATO.
Occasion is the conviction of a Macedonian 23-year-old today by three months of prison because she has kidnapped her daughter and should have kept the judicially arranged visiting rights the divorced man and father. The father is, for the rest, also a Macedonian.
At the moment of the process beginning two years ago the woman had only the Macedonian citizenship. Before, nevertheless, the judgment became effective, it got at the request of in February of this year the Bulgarian citizenship, although she lives in Macedonia. Now with it a Bulgarian sits in Macedonia in custody and both countries do not lie quite involuntarily in the clinch.
Protest
The government in Sofia accused consequently the Macedonian authorities of "to pursuing" members of the Bulgarian people and Bulgarian citizens in Macedonia in different manners. The Macedonian foreign ministry rejected these accusations. Private family affairs might not load the bilateral relations, local newspapers cite the Macedonian government.
However, for Macedonians the Bulgarian citizenship offers apparently absolutely to incentive. Numerous citizens of the former Yugoslavian partial republic have spent themselves during the past years than Bulgarians to come to the popular Bulgarian passports with which they can travel freely of visa in the countries of the EU. This fact probably does not intrude to the Bulgarian government.
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For Bulgaria there is no Macedonia
In Bulgarian view there is because no independent Macedonian nation. The Slavic majority population of the Yugoslavian ex partial republic is looked by Sofia as ethnically Bulgarian. However, Bulgaria has explained several times that the borders existing now are unmoveable. Bulgarian attempts to take in ethnically the Slavic inhabitants of the neighbouring republic had led in the past over and over again to tensions between Skopje and Sofia.
Macedonia had been split after the Balkan wars 1913 between the kingdoms Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria. The division was sanctioned in 1919 in the peace treaty by Neuilly. In the Second World War Bulgaria allied with Nazi Germany took temporarily other parts of Macedonia. Under the rule Titos the Serbian part of Macedonia became own partial republic of Yugoslavia and after his decay beginning de
