Nase Novine, January 25, 1978

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STATEMENT MADE ON 29 JUNE 1978 BY fHE OFFICIAL SPOKES-MAN
OF THE FEDERAL SECRETARIAT FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
ON BEHALF OFTHE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIALIST FEDE-RAL
REPUBLICOF YUGOSLAVIA CONCERNING THE SPEECH
DELIVERED 'AT BLAGOEVGRAD, ON 15 JUNE 1978, BY MR.
TODOR ZHIVKOV ,' PRESIDENT OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA, ON THE BALKAN POLICY
OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA '
1 . We have studied carefully,, the
speech.delivered by Todor Zhivkov,
President of, the State Council of
the People's Republic of. Bulgaria,
at Blagoevgrad on 15 June 1978.
2. In his speech President Zhiv-kov
stated, among other things,
that the People's Republic of Bul-garia
was ready to sign with the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yu-goslavia
a joint declaration on the
inviolability of frontiers and renun-ciation
of territorial claims, and to
do this "immediately, without la-ying
any conditions and without
any postponement". In this conne-ction,
he declared that relations
between the Socialist Federal Re-public
of Yugoslavia and the
People's Republic of Bulgaria
could become a model of good-neighbourline- ss.
3. However, President Zhivkov
failed to say anything about the
essential problem that is burde-ning
our relations, namely, the fact
that the existence of the Macedo-nian
national minority is perslsten-l- y
denied and a policy of assimi-lation
pursued in the People's
Republic of Bulgaria. Instead of
this, President Zhivkov, in his
speech, mentioned "so-call- ed put-standi- ng
questions" and asserted,
that insistence, on. their solution
constitutes a "fruitless and futu-rele- ss
approach".'
4. The entire speech of. Presi-dent
Zhivkov was phrased n such a
way as to create the Impression
that the Bulgarian side Is ready to
do all In Its power to promote
good-neighbour- ly relatione; but
that the blame for not ''having
succeeded In (his lies with the
Yugoslav side. :' ''''
' 5. In view of the fact' that we are
dealing here with a question having'
serious, implications, we deem It
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Celovec — U povodu 30. godlS-nflc- e
izia2enja,41st "NaS tednlk"',
glasllo Narodnog savfeta koruSkih
Slovenaca u Celovcu u svom sveda- -
nom broju objavljuje opSlran Inter- -
VJu s predsjednikom- - RepubUdkef
konierenclje
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U razgovoru s Fllipom Wara- -
,schom, sekretarom
slovenske organizaclje
u Mitja Rlblci6, izmedu
ostaloga, kaze da Je.'na 2alost,
"Austrija Helslnkija krenula
putem krsenja, a ne putem realiza- -
cije i svojlh
obaveza Drzavnog ugovora. Aus-trijs- ko
manjinsko zakonodavstvo Je
u suprotnosti s X.
na£ela helsinskog dokumenta, kojl
goyori o Ispunjavanju obaveza u
dobroj vjerl na osnovl medunarod-no- g
prava. Oslm toga, takio je
ogranlcavanje prava manjlna u
suprotnosti I VII. nafielom koje
obavezuje drzave na poStivanje
unapredivanje u6vrS6ivanja Ijud-ski- h
prava".
Na pitanje da nedemokratskl
necessary to present some relevant
facts and to acquaint the public
with the real state of affairs:
6. As regards the offer concer-ning
the renunciation of territorial
claims, which was presented in the
speech in a dramatic form, we may
say that, as far as we are concer-ned,
this question has not been in
dispute since the end of the
Second War.
This offer by the Bulgarian
side would make sense if it was In
function of the promotion of
greater confidence and. of the
unamblgous recognition of the exi-stence
of the Macedonian national
minority In Bulgaria as well as
recognition of the fact of the exis-tence
of the Macedonian nation In
the Socialist Republic of Mace-donia,
that is, in the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
8. With regard to the offer to sign
' the proposed declaration "without
any conditions", we wish to stress
the following.
9. It Is obvious that the speech
contains a rigid condition whereby
It demanded that the Yugoslav
side should renounce its stand to
the effect that the existence of the
Macedonian national minority
should be recognized In the Peo- -
' pie's Republic of Bulgaria and that
the said minority should be en-abled
to enjoy all Its national
rights.
10. The question also arises as
to why President Zhivkov Is again
proplslng the Implementation,
"without any 'postponement", of a
matter which was on the agenda
two years ago and -- which has not
moved off dead centre owing to the
fact that the same condition was
posed by the Bulgarian. side at that
- time. Namely, In 1976, in its draft
declaration on the development of..
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lorn Rlbl6l6emi c urida, rjefiavanje problema manjine
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spomenute
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nakon
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jasno, prlnclpijelno I odlufino Iska-zal- a
u brojnim notama i izjaVama
naslh drzavnih predstavnika. Nlka-d- a
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i'surad nju, ffl;, Austrljorn, .uvjetoval I
elsKlju6lvo£dnosomnnjezne vlade
Austriji ne bi bllo samo u korist
manjlna i mati6nih naroda, ve6 I u
korist same Austrlje. Ukollko bi
Austrija krenula drugim putem I
pofiela postupno reallzirati mjere
koje bi znafiile stvarno Ispurijavanje
odredbi Drzavnog ugovora, koje ne
bl Jamfille samo opstanak, ved i
druStveno-polltlfik- i, privrednl i kul-tur- ni
razvoj manjlna. A te bi mjere
manjine prihvatiie kao napredno
manjinsko zakonodavstvo, kao
znakdobre volje politldkih snaga
vecinskog naroda,- - sto bi znafillo,
Istodobnb, I otvaranje sirih prlvred-ni- h
i kultumlh perspektiva za
suradnju izmedu obje zemlje, a
posebno izmedu Socljallstlfikih re-publ- ika
Hrvatske I Slovenlje s
KoruSkom I Stajerskom pokrajinom
;i cljelom Austrljorn. Narodnosne
odnoslpremamanjlnanq Austriji ibprbe uVlJek zna6e stagnaclju I u'
optereduju odnose i'zrf]edujAustrlj-0Pfivredno- m
1 kulturnom napretku, a
Je I Jugoslavlje, Rlblfiieje otigbvo-- , to. osobiio yrljedl u vrijeme; kada
rio pbtvrdno "Juddslavlja'Je;' to' borba za slobodu I ravriop'ravnost
relations,, the Bulgarian, side sub;,
mltted the "same formulation, the
adoption of which by the Yugoslav,
sjde.would.have meant that Yugo-slavia
had reconciled itself to the
policy of assimilation" of the Mace-donian
national pursued in the
People's Republic of Bulgaria.
Even then, Yugoslavia proposed to
the Bulgarian side that it sign a
joint document embodying princip-les
for the elimination of major
obstacles and for the laying down
of fondatlons for the unhampered
and all-rou- nd development of frien-dly
and good-neighbour- ly relations
between our peoples and our two
countries.
11. The proposed Yugoslav draft
documents laid emphasis on the
preparedness of the two countries
to develop their relations on the
basis of the principles of consis-tent
respect for sovereignty, terri-torial
Integrity and non-interfere- n-"
ce in the affairs of their States.
They noted that the two sides were
in agreement that the situation and
protection of national minorities —
of the Macedonian minority in
Bulgaria and the Bulgarian minori-ty
In Yugoslavia — constituted an
Important factor in promoting con-fidence
and developing and streng-thening
co-operati- on between the
two neighbouring countries. In this
connection, it was envisaged that
the Yugoslav Assembly and the
Bulgarian Parliament-shoul- d adopt
solemn (declarations on the posi-tion
and rights of the Bulgarian
national minority in Yugoslavia and
of the Macedonian minority In
Bulgaria,, . }(, cr
12. In conectloni with the ex-changed
documents, Yugoslav-Bulgaria- n
talks were held in Sofia
In September 1976. The talks did
not produce posltlveresults as the
Bulgarian side was not prepared to
change Its attitude towards the
question of the Macedonian natio-nal
minority in the People's Repub--
He of Bulgaria. It is. obvious, there-fore,
that we proposed the solving, '
-- no) of some abstract, but of quite
concrete problems that are of deci-sive
importance to the develop--
rara
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naroda postaje jednlm od glavnlh
pokretaCa napretka suvremenog
6ovje6anstva".
"SadaSnJi polozaj slovenske I
hrvatske manjine", rekao je na
kraju razgovora za "NaS tednlk"
Mitja Ribl6i6, "u Austriji ne zado-voljav- a.
Stovlse, upravo u posled-nji- m
godlnama on se pogorsao. To
nlje polozaj koji se moze prihvatitl i
zbog toga i ne moze vjeClto opstati.
lako se stvar Clni bezizlaznom, ne
bi trebalo gubitl vjeru u snagu I
odl'ufinost manjine, u. podr'fiku dr- -.
zave matl6npg narodaj, копабпо, u
polltlfikl realizam u austrljskom
jjrustvu".
"Restrlktlvno zakonodavstvo, at- -
mosfera sovlnlstlCkog neprijatelj-stv- a,
uz prljetece sudske procese,
usred Evrope, zalsta ne mogu bit)
dobra perspektiva suvremene Aus-trlje
koja, kao mala i neutralna
zemlja, ima velike amblcije s
Вебот kao znaCaJnim centrom
--bro-jnlh
medunarodnih agencija
Ujedlnjenih naroda. Manjlna ve5
danas kuca na savjest I svijest
auetrljske republlke, a Јоб vISe ce
to dinlti sutra, sa sazrijevanjem
manjlnske i opceljudske problema-tlk- e
suvremenog svljeta u Evropi",
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merit ofmutual relations and we do
not see any reason for changing
our position,
13. We. wish to emphasize on
this occasion that there was a
period when the official policy of
the People's Republic of Bulgaria,
with respect to this question, was
quite different. From numerous
State and official documents of
that period, it clearly emerges that
the Bulgarian Government not only
recognized the existence of the
Macedonian national minority in
Bulgaria, but „that it was also
taking measures and assuming
obllgations'with regard to the imp-rovement
of its situation. Even in
1956, Bulgarian statistics registe-red
187,789 Macedonians in Bulga-ria.
This represents an evident
abandonment of Gueorgui Diml-trov- 's
course regarding the solu-tion
of the question of national
minorities in Bulgaria.
14. In view of the one-side- d and
inexact presentation of problems
involving Yugoslav-Bulgaria- n rela-tions,
as well as attempts at port-raying
Yugoslavia as an intolerant
side that is interfering in the inter-nal
affairs of other States, we have
decided to publish all the afore-mentioned
documents and thus
enable public opinion, ours and
that of the world, to get thoroughly
acquainted with the objective and
real facts.
15. From the contents of the
documents we are now publishing,
everyone, we are certain, will be
able to conclude objectively as to
Uzgred zabelezeno
Lek protiv nudlzma
Nedeljni londonski list "Sandl
tajms" donosi I ovu vest:
"Jedan" farmer u Norbonl, jugo-zapad- na
Francuska, nlje mogao, ni
bodljikavom 2lcom da spreCI hUdls-t- e
da.planduju na njegovom ima-- .
nju. Ajl.olkad Jena njih natutkao
jednog bika vise se ne pojavljuju".
Dvonozne zverke
Veliki poznavalac zlvotinjskog
sveta i ljubitelj ilvotinja profesor
Bernard Grcimek ka2e:
1 "Ja vide volim da sedruzlm sa
iivotinjama nego sa politlcarima.
Za nas ljude tigar je manje opasan
od ponekog роММбага".
Ljubavna teorija i praksa
Filmska glumica Zana Moro
izjasnjava se u anketi fenskog
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polova:
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which side is pursuing a principled
and consistent policy and is ready
to exert efforts towards ensuring
that relations among States in the
Balkans, in Europe and in the
world In general develop in accor-dance
with the spirit of the Charter
of the United Nations and the prin-ciples
embodied in the Final Docu-ment
of Helsinki. As far as our
country is concerned, we can only
underline once again our readiness
to 'exert, in that spirit and on that
basis, maximum efforts with a view
to promoting an all-rou- nd develop-ment
of good-neighbour- ly rela-tions
and co-operati- on with the
People's Republic of Bulgaria. This
means that we envisage the deve-lopment
of lasting and stable
relations founded on full respect
for sovereignty, independence,
equality and non-interferen- ce. This
includes the recognition and cons-tructive
solution of the question of
the position and rights of the
Macedonian national minority in
the People's Republic of Bulgaria,
as in the case of the Bulgarian
national minority in the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
16. Finally, we wish to empha-size
that respect for the right of
equal and free development of all
nations and national minorities is a
component of the realization of
human rights and fundamental
freedoms, which has been and
remains one of the basic principles
of the domestic and foreign poli-cies
of the Socialist Federal Re-public
of Yugoslavia.
"Muskarci koji pametno govore o
zenania mahom su loSi ljubavnici.
Praktl6ari u ljubavi ne govore
pametno vec pametno delaju".
Dobro6instvo u svoju korist
Engleski nedeljni list "Observer"
ukazuje u jednom 6lariku na koris-no- st
pomaganja zemalja u razvoj u
jerje u njima preobilje neiskorisde-no- g
prirodnog bogatstva. Clanak
nosl nasloy:
"Ako hoces da si bogat pomazi
siromaSne".
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zanlmanle. U nekim Skolama razre-d- l
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