The Bulgarian cultural club “Ivan Mihajlov” is shutting down, informed the Central Registry of N. Macedonia.
The reason for termination is the decision of the Ministry of Justice. The central registry acted ex officio following a decision made by the ministry.
The reason, it is said, is due to non-compliance of the name with the changes in the Law on Associations and Foundations. The instruction was sent to the Central Registry by the ministry on March 17.
The law prohibits the establishment of organizations that in their name, program, goals and activities incite and call for military aggression, incitement of national, racial, religious hatred or other intolerance, intolerance, genocide, extermination, spreading and support, incitement and approval of fascism , Nazism, National Socialism and the Third Reich.