Original sentence: After the Second World War, the creation of People's Republic of Macedonia and the policy of the new Communist states about the founding of Balkan Federative Republic changed the situation and an ethnic Macedonian minority was officially recognized.Arben Xhaferi, the president of the Democratic Party of Albanians in Republic of Macedonia stated in an intervew for Albanian newspaper Sheculi in 2006 that in his opinion the Slav-speaking inhabitants of Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo are Bulgarians.Former Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi of Albania stated: “I wouldn’t like to offend anyone who would call himself a Macedonian, but in the territory near Lake Prespa there is a school instructing in Bulgarian”.Nowadays official Bulgaria also claims an existence of a local ethnic Bulgarian minority in those areas.The CIA World Factbook supports these claims pointing to the 1989 census.The most Slavs-speaking from the region were converted to Islam during the centuries when the Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans.Website of the Bulgarian associations in Albania
Edited sentence: After the Second World War, the creation of People's Republic of Macedonia and the policy of the new Communist states about the founding of Balkan Federative Republic changed the situation and the ethnic Macedonian minority was officially recognized.Albania denies the existence of a Bulgarian minority in the Mala Prespa, Golo Brdo and Gora regions.Arben Xhaferi, the president of the Democratic Party of Albanians in Republic of Macedonia stated in an intervew for Albanian newspaper Sheculi in 2006 that in his opinion the Slavic-speaking inhabitants of Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo are Bulgarians, he is known for referring to Ethnic Macedonians as Bulgarians.But, the Bulgarian Government claims that a Bulgarian minority does exist.In the 1989 Albania census a total of 782 people claimed either Romanian, Czechoslovakian or Bulgarian Nationality.In the 1989 census a total of 782 people claimed either Romanian, Bulgarian or Czechoslovakian Nationality.Montenegrins of Albania.Most Slavic-speakers from the region were converted to Islam during the centuries when the Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans.Other officially recognised Slavs in Albania include Macedonians, Montenegrins and the Gorani people.The CIA World Factbook also claims from a 1989 estimate that a small number of Bulgarians do exist