Bulgaria PM: I Wouldn't Be Mad at Russian Colleagues over Moscow Police Raid

Politics » DIPLOMACY | November 5, 2009, Thursday // 15:18
Bulgaria: Bulgaria PM: I Wouldn't Be Mad at Russian Colleagues over Moscow Police Raid Bulgaria's PM Borisov, a former top cop, said he would do the same if he was in the place of the Russian police. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, said Thursday he would not "create any obstacles" for the Russian police over their raid of a Bulgarian diplomatic facility in Moscow if there was actually a crime.

“From a purely legal, diplomatic point of view they have no right to enter there but if there is a person or a firm who committed a crime, I wouldn’t be mad at the Russian colleagues. If there is a crime there, I would do the same thing. If that is the case, I am not going to create any obstacles for them in any way,” said Borisov who is a former Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, i.e. Bulgaria’s top cop position.

Borisov’s statement came several hours after the Russian police carried out a search at the residential apartment of the Bulgarian Industrial Center in Moscow, a premise which enjoys diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

In a phone interview for Novinite.com, a senior representative of the Economic Security Department of the Russian Interior Ministry said the special operation in Moscow had been carried out without any infringement of the Bulgarian diplomatic premises.

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