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Spaska Mitrova (l), who is pictured with then Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, during her October visit to Bulgaria after being released from jail, vows to continue fighting her child custody case. Photo by BGNES
The Ambassador of Macedonia to Sofia, Alexander Vasilevski, was called Friday to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry in connection with the Spaska Mitrova custody case.
Vasilevski talked for about an hour and a half with Deputy Foreign Minister, Marin Raykov, to provide clarifications about the Macedonian position regarding the Gevgeli court rule that deprived Bulgarian mother, Spaska Mitrova, of her parental rights.
On Thursday, the Court in the Macedonian town of Gevgeli ruled to give custody rights to the father of 3-year old-Suzanna, daughter of Bulgarian Spaska Mitrova and Serbian Voislav Savic.
The case has been postponed several times already. Mitrova has been threatened with repression if she does not leave Macedonia. On February 23, Bulgaria’s nationalist VMRO party reported that about 10 policemen in uniform broke in Mitrova's parents house and threatened her that if even one Bulgarian reporter is present at the Wednesday trial, she would have to live through horror much exceeding everything that has happened to her so far.
The young woman, who lives in Macedonia, holds a Bulgarian passport and perceives herself as Bulgarian, was sentenced and served time in a Macedonian prison over charges she did not allow her husband to see Suzanna. She was released on parole, but then the parental rights case began. She has been the cause of diplomatic scandal between the two countries in 2009.
In mid-February Mitrova was allowed to see her 3-year-old daughter Suzanna for the first time in the last year and a half.
In the aftermath of the news about the Court's rule, the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry expresses deep concern over the way the custody trial was held. The Ministry defined the trial as non-transparent and held in the conditions of a very negative public environment, which included physical force, detention, and depriving the mother of her right to see her child.
Vasilevski and Raykov also discussed Friday the Bulgarian proposal of a Friendship Treaty with Macedonia.
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