? number of Arab and Libyan newspapers and on-line editions made extensive coverage of Foreign Minister Passy's visit in Tripoli on the occasion of the trial of the Bulgarian medics, accused of deliberately infecting 393 children with HIV virus. Among the...
President Stoyanov released with a decree General Anguel Katsarov from the position Director of Military Information Service because of his retirement age....
The updated version of Plan 2004 will be discussed at the Cabinet meeting on December 20. Foreign Minister Passy and Defense Minister Svinarov will not attend the meeting since they are out of the country....
President-elect Georgi Parvanov received a letter from Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi with assurances for a just, transparent and objective trial against the six Bulgarian medics who have been imprisoned in Libya for almost three years now after being char...
The State Telecommunications Agency will be replaced with a Committee on Communications Regulation, under the amendments to the telecommunications act, passed in Parliament on December 20....
The leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party has not discussed nominations for the new floor leader of “Coalition for Bulgaria,” it emerged after a meeting of the party leaders late on December 20. Sergey Stanishev, newly elected Chairman of the Bulgar...
Parliament adopted all amendments to the Postal Services Act. The amendments envisage control over Bulgarian Posts to be exercised by the Committee on Communications Regulations....
World | December 20, 2001, Thursday
"Sony" and "Vivendi Universal" will sign a joint venture for the creation of a subscription system and a catalogue for downloading music from Internet. The service will be introduced after January 1, 2002....
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg moved in Parliament a proposal for the establishment of Ministry of Energy and Energy Resources, which is to be headed by the current chair of the State Agency for Energy and Energy Resources Milko Kovachev. The proposal...
World | December 20, 2001, Thursday
The FBI, convinced anthrax found in the mail was made in the USA, is investigating a scientist who was fired from an Ohio facility....
Ivan Drazhkov, Deputy Director of National Security Service was appointed acting National Security Service Director with a decree, signed by the Interior Minister. President Stoyanov officially released General Atanas Atanassov, Director of National Secur...
World | December 20, 2001, Thursday
High-level talks between Israeli and Palestinian security officials resumed late in the evening on December 19 as both sides sat down to discuss prevention of terrorist attacks. Few details were released on the meetings....
World | December 20, 2001, Thursday
Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person charged in direct connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks, appeared very briefly December 19 before a U.S....
World | December 20, 2001, Thursday
Al Qaeda fighters who had been arrested after crossing the border into Pakistan staged an armed revolt December 19, and 21 of the prisoners escaped, local commanders said....
Switzerland will grant CHF 1,905,000 to prevent the loss of biodiversity in Bulgaria. An intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on the project was signed by Environment Minister Dolores Arsenova and Swiss Ambassador to Bulgaria Pierre Luciri....