Cultural diplomacy is stronger than traditional diplomacy. This is what RSM President Gordana Siljanovska told Bulgarian journalists in Skopje.
She was a guest at the premiere of the Sofia Opera and Ballet in Skopje. The Bularian soloists presented Wagner's "Die Walküre" to the Macedonian audience, BNT reports.
Asked whether her presence in the hall was a step towards warming relations between Sofia and Skopje, Siljanovska-Davkova said she insisted on cultural diplomacy.
The President of the RSM defined the Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet Acad. Plamen Kartaloff as an exceptional person. In her words, he will ignite the cultural flame in Skopje.
The two also talked personally in the hall. "Wagner is not without you" were the words of Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova to Acad. Kartaloff.