In the period 1969 – 1975 the relations between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia developed dynamically. In 1969 the relations exacerbated, as a result of the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact forces in Czechoslovakia.
Bulgaria took the initiative to improve the relations
by proposing that the Macedonian question should not be brought to
the fore, but contacts in areas of mutual interest should be developed
instead. However, Yugoslavia wanted the existence of a “Macedonian”
national identity to be recognized first. In 1970, Bulgaria proposed to
two countries to sign a document in which to declare that they had no
territorial claims against each other.
Yugoslavia’s request for this to
happen only with the recognition of the existence of a “Macedonian
minority” on the territory of Bulgaria doomed the negotiations to
failure...
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