Macedonian President: Changing Balkan borders would lead to a “bassing blood”

The movement of borders in the Balkans would lead to a “bay blood” immediate, North Macedonia President Stevo Pendarovski has said.

Comments by the head of the Macedonian state come after the publication of a “per” recently protecting the restoration of the borders of already formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia, Euronews writes, the Kosovo Clan broadcasts.

The signed document, dubbed <x0non-paper” in diplomatic circles, proposes expanding Serbia, Croatia and Albania at the expense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Macedonia and Kosovo.

“You cannot change the borders in the Balkans and not have a blood bath, as simple as that one,” said Pendarovski in an interview for Euronews, broadcasts Kosovo.

Pendarovski said he would never accept changes to borders in northern Macedonia, arguing that the human cost that these transformations bring is too serious to deal with.

“The recent exchange of people and territories near the European continent took place in 1923 with Lozanne's agreement between [the then existing] Turkey and Greece, and under heavy care and monitoring the great power of that period of”.

You can talk to some of those future generations of people who suffered most in that period of time. They still bear heavy marks on their souls and have never been to see their homes. This completely changed demographics in some parts of today's Turkey and parts in modern Greece”.

Pendarovski, among other things, says he can't even think about the possible flow of this scenario, as we would see terrible human suffering.

So I wouldn't want to think about that possible stream of script because we're going to see the terrible suffering of ordinary people. Those who are drawing or reviewing the maps on the table are not suffering. And we have a lot of that in the history of the Balkans”, Pendarovski has expressed.

While the authenticity of this <x0non-paper” has not been verified, however, it has caused anger and shock throughout the Balkans, where the topic of borders remains a highly controversial and divisive issue.

Several European Parliament countries and members have refused their involvement in this “no-paper” EU institutions have refrained from giving any official response.

“They [EU institutions] must condemn these ideas, regardless of who the creator is, who is the messenger of these ideas,” said, acknowledging that you do not know more details about the document except those given in the press.

“ [These ideas] are very dangerous, especially in the region, which has recently been from that bloody series of recent Balkan wars in the 1990s. We have more than 100,000 people killed throughout the region, millions displaced, major injuries to their homes. The best and the brightest have endlessly left the region and their homeland”, Pendarovski said.