Bulgaria may not send troops to a neighboring to Iraq country, it emerged on Wednesday. General Nikola Kolev, Chief of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Armed Forces, did not rule out this option after a meeting with Bulgarian President Parvanov.
Government spokesman Dimitur Tsonev confirmed Wednesday that Bulgaria did not face military threat because of the war in Iraq. He specified that the situation in Sarafovo neighborhood of Black Sea city Burgas where US aircraft and troops are stationed was
The crisis in Iraq showed the need of a true common EU foreign and security policy, Javier Solana, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and High representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, said at a meeting with Bulgaria's
The Council of the Arab Countries in Bulgaria denounced at a news conference the war in Iraq on Wednesday.
Two Bulgarian officers will be sent to the Central Command's temporary headquarters in the Gulf in Doha, Qatar, the Defence Ministry announced.
Fourteen people have died and another 30 have been injured as two missiles or bombs hit a market in the north of Baghdad.
With spring setting in, the ceremonial guards in front of the Presidency in Sofia donned their red tunics trimmed in white.
Last year, the Bulgarian population has fallen by 45,596 people, the national statistical institute announced. 7,845,500 people were registered in Bulgaria as of December 31, 2002.
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg left Wednesday on a two-day official visit to Albania at the invitation of Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano.
Deputy Foreign Minister Petko Draganov pays a visit to Greece. The Iraqi crisis, Bulgaria's EU accession and the bilateral relations will be top on the agenda.
Border police at Kalotina border check point prevented two attempt for illegal export of forged EUR 100 bank notes and a fake identity card, issued in Greece. The currency and the card have been carried by Bulgarian nationals on a bus heading for the Neth
Baghdad came under renewed bombardment in fresh air raids on Wednesday morning at 10 am Bulgarian local time. A number of large explosions were heard in Baghdad shortly before dawn.
Iraqi Ambassador to Bulgaria Yahiya Mahdi said that the leadership of his country will not use weapons of mass destruction in the war. Mahdi told private bTV channel that his country had "the possibility to hit strongly the aggressors.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has criticized the U.S.
US troops killed some 650 Iraqis in fighting near the central town of Najaf over the last 24 hours, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Major John Altman, intelligence officer of the Third Infantry Division's First Brigade.
The advance of US Marines north from the southern city of Nassiriya was stopped by Iraqi resistance, Reuters reported.
Coalition forces are reportedly standing by to enter the southern Iraqi city of Basra to support a possible civilian uprising.
Iraqi state television appears on air despite bombing of station by US-led forces hours earlier. Iraq's international satellite channel remains off air.
Bulgaria will sign its NATO accession protocol today in Brussels. The ceremony will start at 3 pm local time (4pm Bulgarian time).
Buildings are burning in central Baghdad after what appear to be dawn raids by coalition forces, BBC reported. US warplanes again pounded Republican Guard positions near Baghdad on Wednesday after American ground forces reported killing up to 300 Iraqi t
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned the war in Iraq is still "much closer to the beginning than the end", but said humanitarian aid was already being delivered. At a Pentagon briefing, Rumsfeld said "food, water and medicine" was being provid
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