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7/21/2022 05:00
The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European affairs, Bojan Maricik, on a journalist's question at today's press conference, revealed the plans to implement the necessary constitutional amendments to close the initial phase of negotiations with the EU.
He pointed out that before the procedure begins, there will be consultations with experts who understand Constitutional law and have participated in the previous stages of changing the Constitution, and that the moment when the text and the need are determined, that process will begin.
The most important thing is to create an atmosphere that will not repeat the situation in the Parliament that we had last week, which did not provide conditions for dialogue, nor conditions for a normal exchange of arguments.
We want it to be a process in which we will have an open, serious, public discussion with the involvement of the stakeholders, representatives of the communities that should be included in the Constitution. I believe that in terms of content, these constitutional amendments would probably be the easiest of all so far. I am speaking in terms of content, since we already have 7 communities in the Constitution, we need to add at least 3 more or as many as we will decide in that process, explained Maricik.
According to him, in relation to these issues, there are two types of patriots, some who remain only in good or bad words and others who work in action.
- To protect our identity, Macedonian language, identity and uniqueness and to become a member of the EU. These have been our goals ever since independence as a country, and we as the Government considered and still consider them to be achievable goals at the same time. That we can remain Macedonians who speak the Macedonian language and be members of the EU. I think we are on the right track to achieve that, said Maricik, recalling that the past 5 years the Government has taken serious steps to protect the Macedonian language and identity and that it was during this period that the Macedonian language was entered into the UN, was entered into the Council of Europe, in NATO, in OSCE and in all international organizations where North Macedonia is a member, which, according to Maricik, is much more important and patriotic than any other symbolism, Deputy Prime Minister Maricik pointed out.