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Bulgaria Govt Prompts President to Fire Ambassadors to US, Turkey
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The Borisov cabinet approved the firing of the Ambassadors to USA, Turkey over violations during the latest Bulgarian elections. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian government decided Wednesday to ask President Georgi Parvanov to dismiss the country's Ambassadors to the USA and Turkey.
Based on a report of Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, the cabinet has approved the removal of Lachezar Petkov as Ambassador to the USA and Branimir Mladenov as Ambassador to Turkey over violations during the organizing and conducting of the Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections in the respective foreign countries in July 2009.
The GERB government also decided Wednesday to revoke Petko Sertov, the former head of the State National Security Agency DANS, as Bulgaria’s Consul in Thessaloniki, Greece. Sertov’s name has been involved in several recent DANS scandals, and he may be charged over the leaking of top secret intelligence reports.
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