Gashi travels to Sofia tomorrow for meeting with Bulgarian parliament speaker: Our positions on constitutional changes remain unchanged

Assembly Speaker Afrim Gashi will be in Sofia tomorrow, where, as part of the conference of the SEECP cooperation process, he will hold a bilateral meeting with the Speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, Mihaela Milcheva Dotsova, and will also deliver a speech.

Speaking to journalists at today’s meeting, Gashi said that the talks will focus on parliamentary cooperation, underlining that it has not been intensive so far. Regarding the constitutional changes, he said he will reiterate the positions that have already been made public, which, according to him, represent both the state position and his personal conviction.

“We need to talk, we need to move forward, to find a way to be together in the EU. I think the future should unite us, not the past, so I am going with a positive mindset and I want to take part in improving relations between our two countries and our two parliaments,” Gashi said.

Speaking about relations between the two assemblies, he stressed that the political situation in Bulgaria and the frequent elections there have so far made it impossible to establish proper and direct communication with the Bulgarian parliament.

“Now we are trying to establish good communication with the new composition after the parliamentary elections there,” Gashi said.

Two MPs are already present at the meeting being held in Sofia, while Gashi will join them tomorrow.

A week ago, as part of the SEECP chaired by Bulgaria, President Gordana Sijanovska Davkova and Foreign Minister Timcho Mucunski also took part in meetings in Sofia.