NO THREAT FOR ELECTION BY SKOPIE CRISIS

Business | June 8, 2001, Friday // 00:00

There is no immediate threat to Bulgaria`s national security arising from the complicated situation in Macedonia and suspected Bulgaria`s involvement in the attack against Macedonian President Boris Traykovsky`s office on Wednesday, was an attempt to provoke complications in bilateral relations. These are the two main conclusions drawn by the Bulgarian Security Council on Thursday meeting, Foreign Minister Nadezhda Mihailova said. `We have not discussed a possible postponement of the elections and we do not think they could be jeopardized by the situation in Macedonia. We have not discussed giving Macedonia military assistance, either,` Mihailova said. Macedonian national suspected of opening fire at President Boris Traykovsky`s office in Skopje Wednesday has been arrested and made a full confession, The Macedonian Ministry of the Interior announced. Dragni Nikolovsky, a 45-year-old man from Skopje, confessed that on Wednesday evening he fired two gunshots at the President Traykovsky`s office, and 25 minutes later at the Skopje Court building from a Bulgarian-registered Opel Corsa, using a 9 mm Makarov. His actions was provoked by great indignation at Wednesday`s killing of five Macedonian soldiers near the village of Gajre, which he wanted to vent by opening fire at the buildings of the two institutions. The initials D.N. coincide with the initials of a Macedonian national running a Sofia-based business, the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior announced. The car was imported and registered in Bulgaria in 2000.

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