Post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria

Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 16246 | 30 September 2025

Signatories:

Ms Marija PETRUSHEVSKA, North Macedonia, EPP/CD ; Mr Branislav BORENOVIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, EPP/CD ; Mr Bekim KJOKU, North Macedonia, SOC ; Ms Bisera KOSTADINOVSKA-STOJCHEVSKA, North Macedonia, SOC ; Ms Elvira KOVÁCS, Serbia, EPP/CD ; Mr Christophe LACROIX, Belgium, SOC ; Ms Nađa LAKOVIĆ, Montenegro, EPP/CD ; Ms Jorida TABAKU, Albania

Origin

2025 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 17, insert the following paragraph:

"The Assembly recalls that recognition by the State as a "national minority" is not a prerequisite for qualification for protection under the Framework Convention."

Explanatory note

Though Bulgaria do not recognize existence of Macedonian minority and their human rights, it does not released them from the obligation to respect the Framework convention for protection of national minorities.