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Bulgaria' Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Krasimir Kostov (center), resigned in the aftermath of his exposure as having belonged to the so-called “State Security.” Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria' Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Krasimir Kostov, resigned Friday, the cabinet's press center informs.
Kostov submitted his resignation on the heels of his exposure as having belonged to the so-called “State Security”, the secret police and intelligence of the former communist regime. The resignation was accepted by Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
Kostov says he had not been pressured to resign and at the time when he accepted the post he told Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, who on Friday became Bulgaria's new EC Commissioner, that he would submit his resignation intermediately if his presence at the Ministry becomes a problem.
Kostov was assigned the responsibility of overseeing the Ministry's EU Integration department.
His counterpart, Vladimir Lyutskanov, will temporarily take over his duties.
On Wednesday, in addition to Bozhidar Dimitrov, Minister for Bulgarians Abroad, who used to be part of the “cultural” intelligence, spying on the Vatican, two more names from the cabinet of the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party were announced by the so called Files Commission, which is in charge of checking and declassifying formerly secret information.
The other one is the Deputy Minister of Interior, Pavlin Dimitrov.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced in a statement on its website that it will no longer appoint retired State Security cops to the political cabinet of Minister Teodora Genchovska.
I thank our colleagues from "There Is Such a People" and the Minister of Foreign Affairs for taking swift measures and people with files of a past in ‘State Security’ that have been announced in the media will not be appointed or will be released if they
There will not be a single State Security (DS) adviser on the team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), said Toshko Yordanov, chairman of the parliamentary group of "There Is Such a People".
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GERB leader Boyko Borissov reacted to the fall of the Zhelyazkov government during a live broadcast on his official Facebook page, following the mass protests across the country.
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