The European Parliament will not allow new conditions to be set to Bulgaria, European Parliament President Pat Cox said in Brussels March 21. The assurances against an unwarranted delay in its EU accession were given during a meeting with Plamen Panayoto
The candidature of Maxim Minchev for General Director of the Bulgarian News Agency has been tabled in Parliament by a lawmaker of Simeon II National Movement. The proposal includes also the dismissal of Stoyan Cheshmedzhiev, director of the Bulgarian News
Bulgaria's left-wing is adamant in its demand that Bulgaria's top priority is to be part of European and Euroatlantic family and Bulgaria must not give ambiguous signals about its choice.
Vienna-based Viva Ventures and the Privatization Agency signed the contract for a 65-percent stake in the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company Friday.
Iraq claims that President Hussein survived US air raids that targeted his family's houses earlier on Friday. They targeted the houses of Saddam Hussein and his family, but they are safe, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said at a news
US military transport plane carried new equipment for the American base in Sarafovo airport, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Sofia. The plane touched down shortly after 9 am, was unloaded and departed again.
A US Marine was killed in Iraq. This is the first reported combat death of the war, the Associated Press reported.
Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg is expected to visit the Sarafovo air base at about 6 pm tonight, the press office of the US 409th Air Expeditionary Group. He was invited by the commanders of the US contingent.
UNICEF has started a fundraising campaign for the Iraqi children. That was announced by world famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri in Sofia.
There have been no threats of terror acts on the territory of Bulgaria since the war in Iraq started, General Vassil Vasssilev, Chief of the National Police Service, announced before the joint meeting of the parliamentary defense and internal order commit
The United States threatened with sanctions the countries and financial organizations, which refuse to freeze Iraq's assets, ITAR-TASS reported.
Bulgaria hasn't reacted yet to the US request Iraqi diplomats to be expelled from the country, Lyubomir Todorov, deputy foreign minister, said Friday. Bulgaria is one of the countries, which officially declared they officially sided with the United State
An American flag flew over the new Iraqi port of Umm Qasr Friday after US Marines took control after light resistance from Iraqi troops, according to a Reuters correspondent, CNN web site announced.
Bulgarian delegation, led by the Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg joined the spring session of the European Council in Brussels. Finance Minister Milen Velchev and Foreign Minister Solomon Passy are on the delegation.
British troops are moving toward several burning oil well heads. They were set on fire by Iraqi forces in the south of the country, the main spokesman for British forces in Qatar said on Friday.
Inaction in the case of Iraq is too risky, US Ambassador to Bulgaria James Pardew said in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio. The risk of allowing Saddam Hussein to keep weapons of mass destruction is bigger than the risk of war, he added.
Some two hundred Iraqi troops surrendered to British Royal Marine commandos operating in southern Iraq on Friday, the BBC news Web site reported. The information was confirmed by CNN.
As the ground war got under way in Iraq, explosions and fireballs were seen in the direction of Basra, Iraq's second city.
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