Macedonian media about Bulgaria: OMO Ilinden-Pirin, collaborators, 100,000 Bulgarians in Albania
5 September 2007 13:15 FOCUS News Agency
Skopje. One of the main topics in the Macedonian media on Wednesday is the court decision in Sofia not to register OMO Ilinden-Pirin as a political party.The Bulgarian authorities violated the agreement contracted in June between the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and government officials in Sofia about the registration of OMO Ilinden-Pirin, A1 television channel informs.With the explanation that the party did not have 600 members at its founding assembly, the Sofia City Court again turned down the registration demand of OMO Ilinden-Pirin, throwing it out of the October local elections race.“I can describe the court decision as the greatest legal absurd that has ever happened in the 17 years. The court has not set out any legal arguments; practically it did not have a single piece of evidence,” party leader Stoyko Stoykov said.According to Strasbourg sources the Bulgarian officials have already complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the court decisions. They expressed hope the Supreme Court would reply positively to the complaint by OMO Ilinden-Pirin.According to diplomatic sources Bulgaria will have to register the party, but the intention was winning time and not allowing OMO Ilinden-Pirin to run in the local vote on October 28th.The deadline for parties to declare their participation in the local elections expires on September 12th, until then Bulgaria’s Supreme Court will most probably not sit into the OMO Ilinden-Pirin case, A1 concludes.Makfax agency announces about a total of 139 former and current lawmakers in Bulgaria had reportedly collaborated with communist-era security service.A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files found that the political leaders Ahmed Dogan, Georgi Parvanov, Georgi Markov, Zhan Videnov and Krasimir Karkachanov were collaborators of the former security service.As many as 19 current members of Bulgarian Parliament are said to have collaborated with the former security service.Incumbent President Georgi Parvanov was also named by the panel as a collaborator. He was recruited in 1989 and his codename was Gotse.DPS leader Ahmed Dogan was agent of the former security service.VMRO leader Krasimir Karakachanov, who is widely known with his anti-Macedonian campaign, was also an agent of the former security service.The committee on declassification of the secret services' file said the ex-prime minister Zhan Videnov was also informer for the communist-era security service. He was removed from the list of active collaborators in 1990.The Macedonian press pay attention to the report broadcast on the Bulgarian National Television that 100,000 Bulgarians are living in Albania.Over 100,000 ethnic Bulgarians are living in Albania, and they are a priority for the Bulgarian government, the Macedonian Vreme newspaper writes.According to the Albanian Balkanweb agency the Bulgarian center for studying minorities mentions in a 2004 report that there are 50,000 Bulgarians in Albania, Mala Prespa and Golo Bardo. In the report the Bulgarian National Television claims the number is 100,000 and criticizes the Albanian government for not paying attention to this minority and for the lack of schools teaching in Bulgarian. The report mentions the Albanian government does not recognize the minority, the newspaper adds.
5 September 2007 13:15 FOCUS News Agency
Skopje. One of the main topics in the Macedonian media on Wednesday is the court decision in Sofia not to register OMO Ilinden-Pirin as a political party.The Bulgarian authorities violated the agreement contracted in June between the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and government officials in Sofia about the registration of OMO Ilinden-Pirin, A1 television channel informs.With the explanation that the party did not have 600 members at its founding assembly, the Sofia City Court again turned down the registration demand of OMO Ilinden-Pirin, throwing it out of the October local elections race.“I can describe the court decision as the greatest legal absurd that has ever happened in the 17 years. The court has not set out any legal arguments; practically it did not have a single piece of evidence,” party leader Stoyko Stoykov said.According to Strasbourg sources the Bulgarian officials have already complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the court decisions. They expressed hope the Supreme Court would reply positively to the complaint by OMO Ilinden-Pirin.According to diplomatic sources Bulgaria will have to register the party, but the intention was winning time and not allowing OMO Ilinden-Pirin to run in the local vote on October 28th.The deadline for parties to declare their participation in the local elections expires on September 12th, until then Bulgaria’s Supreme Court will most probably not sit into the OMO Ilinden-Pirin case, A1 concludes.Makfax agency announces about a total of 139 former and current lawmakers in Bulgaria had reportedly collaborated with communist-era security service.A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files found that the political leaders Ahmed Dogan, Georgi Parvanov, Georgi Markov, Zhan Videnov and Krasimir Karkachanov were collaborators of the former security service.As many as 19 current members of Bulgarian Parliament are said to have collaborated with the former security service.Incumbent President Georgi Parvanov was also named by the panel as a collaborator. He was recruited in 1989 and his codename was Gotse.DPS leader Ahmed Dogan was agent of the former security service.VMRO leader Krasimir Karakachanov, who is widely known with his anti-Macedonian campaign, was also an agent of the former security service.The committee on declassification of the secret services' file said the ex-prime minister Zhan Videnov was also informer for the communist-era security service. He was removed from the list of active collaborators in 1990.The Macedonian press pay attention to the report broadcast on the Bulgarian National Television that 100,000 Bulgarians are living in Albania.Over 100,000 ethnic Bulgarians are living in Albania, and they are a priority for the Bulgarian government, the Macedonian Vreme newspaper writes.According to the Albanian Balkanweb agency the Bulgarian center for studying minorities mentions in a 2004 report that there are 50,000 Bulgarians in Albania, Mala Prespa and Golo Bardo. In the report the Bulgarian National Television claims the number is 100,000 and criticizes the Albanian government for not paying attention to this minority and for the lack of schools teaching in Bulgarian. The report mentions the Albanian government does not recognize the minority, the newspaper adds.
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