Now when the war seems inevitable, the most important thing is to focus on the risks and threats that stem from an eventual military conflict and the necessary measures that would guarantee Bulgaria's national security and the security of each Bulgarian c
A change in Bulgaria's position about Iraq could not be expected, Deputy Foreign Minister Petko Draganov told the Bulgarian National Radio.
The Iraqi crisis must not distract the international community from what is happening on the Western Balkans, Nadezhda Mihaylova, leader of right-wing opposition United Democratic Forces, said minutes before the start of the session of the Consultative Co
Journalists from the Bulgarian News Agency, who demand the resignation of director Stoyan Cheshmedzhiev, staged protests in front of the building of the Agency again early on Monday morning and in front of the Parliament in the evening. In the morning th
The UN Security Council gathers on Monday at an urgent meeting, demanded by Russia, Germany and France, to continue consultations on Iraq. The Council faces a Monday night deadline to agree a new resolution demanding Saddam Hussein's immediate disarmamen
The risks and consequences for Bulgaria's national security will be discussed at the session of the Consultative Council for National Security, that is convened today by President Parvanov.
US President Bush has said that Monday, 17 March, will be a moment of truth for the world regarding Iraq. He did not elaborate but Monday was the deadline the United States and its allies had given Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for disarming.
The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) stops broadcasting again on Monday as most of the journalists continue protests against director Stoyan Cheshmedzhiev. The news agency stopped work on Friday, which was unprecedented in the 105th history of BTA.
The Iraqi authorities have officially asked all journalists and foreign nationals to leave the country in anticipation of war, Gasan Nasur, correspondent of the Trud daily told Bulgarian National Radio. He said that extraordinary security measures have b
Arthur Bogomil Burton has been protesting almost every day in front of the US Embassy in Sofia against war in Iraq. After being born in Bulgaria and living there and in the USSR for 23 years, he emigrated and has been all over the world in the last 20 yea
Sofia Mayor Sofianski criticized the government's policy on the municipal budgets during a visit in Bulgarian city Russe. In his opinion, this policy will lead to a crisis in the public services sector.
Zoran Zivkovic, a former interior minister and close ally of assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, will succeed him. Zivkovic was elected leader of The Democratic Party of Serbia.
Customs officers seized on Sunday morning huge quantities of heroin at border checkpoint Gueshevo. The drug was found in a Turkish bus while it was exiting Bulgaria.
Regional Development Minister Valentin Tserovski opened the construction of the new section of the Thrakia motorway between Orizovo and Stara Zagora. Stara Zagora-based company PSI will do the construction work.
On Monday and Tuesday Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva will be the official representative of Bulgaria to the European Convention. She will participate in the plenary session of the Convention, in which the draft of articles 24 - 33 of the future
Newly set up "December 14" civil committee, led by former rightist opposition chair Edvin Sugarev demanded the immediate resignation of Interior Minister Petkanov because of the show murders of MG President Iliya Pavlov and Moldovian Rubakov last week and
Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg will pay an official visit to Albania on March 26 and 27, he told Bulgarian journalists in Lisbon Saturday. On March 21, the prime minister will make a one-day visit to Brussels.
Mariyan B., 29, was found dead on Sunday morning in the block where he lived in Lozenetz quarter in Sofia.
Iraq expects war could start any time now. The country went on a war footing on Sunday hours before emergency talks on Iraq between Bush, Blair and Aznar on the Azores islands.
Authorities in Serbia say they have arrested one of the criminal ring leaders behind the assassination of the Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic.
Some two hundred people protested against war in Iraq on Sunday in the center of Bulgarian capital Sofia. The rally began in front of the National Palace of Culture.
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