An unprecedented political action was taken by the pro-Serb Deputy Prime Minister of North Macedonia Ivan Stoikovic, reported BGNES.

Stoilkovic became the first high-ranking government official of a NATO member state to attend an anti-NATO rally. It was held in Belgrade on the 26th anniversary of the alliance's air operation against the dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic. Stoilkovic was in the company of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik.

"Commemorative gathering for the victims of NATO aggression," Stoilkovic wrote after the gathering.

It is a legitimate question whose national interest is the deputy prime minister in Skopje defending - the Macedonian or the Serbian?

On March 24, 1999, NATO launched 78 days of strikes (Operation Allied Force) to force Belgrade to end its brutal repression of Kosovo Albanians and their forced deportation in the hundreds of thousands, and to withdraw its military and police forces from Kosovo. Thanks to this intervention, more civilian bloodshed, a new Srebrenica, a new Sarajevo, a new Vukovar, new rapes, ethnic cleansing and genocide were prevented.

Ivan Stoilkovic is Serbian by origin and an open supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In recent years, he has welcomed every Russian politician in Skopje and Serbian flags have been flying at his party rallies. He even dared to call the Serbian genocide against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 a "necrophilic Disneyland". 

Today, the Macedonian Prime Minister, Hristijan Mickoski, was asked why Stoilkovic allowed himself such arbitrariness and he replied: 'I would not look at it through that prism, as you put it. But why Mr Stoilkovic is there, perhaps it is best to ask him."

BGNES recalls that in July last year the Serbian official “Politika” announced that Serbia was returning to power in North Macedonia with the help of Stoilkovic. His appointment in the new Mickoski government is a big victory for Belgrade, the publication said. 

In June, the so-called All-Serbian Council was held, attended by representatives of Serbia, Republika Srpska, Kosovo and North Macedonia. All of them were called upon to preserve the vital national goals and freedom (of Serbia).

In January this year, Stoilkovic was the main figure at the biggest Serbian celebration "St. Sava's Day", which was celebrated... in the centre of Skopje. The event was attended by all the defenders of the Serbian geopolitical project "Serbian World", aimed at the unification of all Serbs in one state and domination of the Balkans.

Most regional and Western observers expressed great concern, recalling that it was with this type of rhetoric and mass gatherings that dictator Slobodan Milosevic launched a series of bloody wars in the Balkans in the 1990s against the peoples who refused to obey Belgrade. | BGNES