Bulgaria Ambassador presented his credentials to Pope Benedict XVI in a ceremony at the Vatican. Photo by BGNES
The newly appointed Bulgarian Ambassador Niloka Kaludov has presented his credentials to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.
The Head of the Roman Catholic Church expressed his satisfaction with the status of the relationship between Bulgaria and the Holy See, and pointed out that it deserves to be more intensive, the Foreign Affairs press center announced.
The Bulgarian Ambassador was received by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, on October 31. At the meeting, the head of the Vatican Administration and the Ambassador exchanged specific viewpoints on future cooperation between Bulgaria and the Vatican State.
Nikola Kaludov was born in Varna on September 11, 1943. He graduated International Economic Relations at the Sofia Higher Economics Institute, and attended courses for diplomatic cadres at the Academies for Diplomatic Studies in Moscow and Vienna.
He has worked for over 30 years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as attaché, Third, Second and First Secretary and adviser to the Ambassador at the Bulgarian embassies of Mali, Mozambique and Brazil.
He has also been the department head at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for bilateral relations with African, Latin American and European countries; and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria in Rome, Italy.