The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia expressed its “serious concern” about the results of the population census carried out in Albania and which were announced yesterday, while it “strongly reacts to the use of the term North Macedonians, to characterize the Macedonian minority living in Albania”. . According to the results of the census announced yesterday in Tirana by the Statistical Service of Albania, the population of the country amounts to 2.4 million people, reduced by 410,000 compared to the previous census carried out in the country in 2011. The number of ” “North Macedonians” in Albania stands at 2,281, compared to 5,512 in the 2011 census, while for the first time 7,957 people are now recorded as “Bulgarians”, although in the previous 11 censuses in Albania not a single person declared themselves Bulgarian. The Albanian authorities only recognized a “Bulgarian minority” in Albania in 2017. The official Sofia claims that in the previous censuses in Albania, the Bulgarian population living in the country was prevented from being counted as such. “Technical irregularities, both […]
Source: News Beast
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