Bulgaria hasn't taken decision how to vote on the second UN Security Council resolution. That was announced Friday by Foreign Minister Passy after a meeting of the parliamentary foreign policy committee.
A total of EUR 325 M out of EUR 136 M of projected 2003 sales of pharmaceutical company Balkanpharma are expected to come from Iceland's Pharmaco, majority owner of the company. Balkanpharma capacity is 10 billion pills a year.
Goran Svilanovic, foreign minister of Serbia and Montenegro, discussed ways to boost regional cooperation with high-profile Bulgarian politicians during his visit in Sofia. He met with the president, prime minister and other government officials.
6,681 people will be laid off from the Bulgaria armed forces this year, Sonya Yankulova, deputy defense minister, announced at seminar on social adaptation of the military officers.
Rightist opposition United Democratic Forces has demanded the resignation of Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov for allowing lawmakers to vote with cards of their colleagues. Deputy UDF Floor Chair Dimitur Abadzhiev recalled to Gerdzhikov that he ha
Rumen Yankov was elected chair of the Constitutional Court. He will chair the Court by October when the mandate of late chair Hristo Danov runs out.
NATO Secretary General George Robertston confirmed in Vilnius that the seven NATO aspirants, who were invited to join NATO, will sign protocols for accession March 26 in Brussels, AFP reported, cited by the Bulgarian News Agency. Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvi
The operation of transporting US military equipment and people to Burgas airport continued on Friday under tight security measures.
A chain reaction crash involving three vehicles near Eagles' Bridge in downtown Sofia left two or three people injured, none of them critically.
Stefan Tafrov, Bulgaria's ambassador to the UN Security Council projected a vote on the second resolution on Iraq as early as next week.
A five-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court will hear the case on the Cabinet's decision on Kozloduy Nuclear Units 3 and 4 at an open meeting today. The court's decision, to be announced within thirty days, will be final and not subject to ap
Sofia mayor banned from February 28th till March 3d all rallies and gatherings in the center of the capital. The security measures are taken because of the official visit of Russian President Putin in Bulgaria.
Some of the sixty-two Bulgarians that the Dutch authorities deported on Wednesday insist they had not broken the law or the travel requirements. Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry will interview all of the deportees about grounds of their expulsion.
Unity in the Security Council is of primary significance to Bulgaria, Lyubomir Ivanov, Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a press conference February 27. He underlined that such a unity has been demonstrated during the adoption of Resolution 1441.
The two victims of the Madrid killing were Slovaks, Spanish news agency EFE reported following a story of Spanish newspaper El Mundo that insisted they were Bulgarian nationals. Spanish daily ABC also wrote that the murdered men came from Slovakia.
A second resolution on Iraq is neither necessary or useful, France's Ambassador to Bulgaria Jean Loup Kuhn-Delforge said in an interview for novinite.com.
The passengers using Bulgaria's two coastal airports have increased by 23 percent over the last year. In 2002, 1,900,000 passengers have used the airports that processed 17,000 landings and take-offs.
Business representatives have negotiated in Havana cooperation with Cuba's largest construction company Uneca. A Bulgarian construction firm will invest in the reconstruction of Cuban hotels thus gaining the right of exploitation.
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry will insist that money and document forgers face over ten years behind bars. The law-enforcers will demand amendments to the country's Penalty Act to curb the widespread forging of currencies and IDs.
Bulgaria is ready to provide four or five of its military bases to American experts. That was announced by Bulgaria's Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov upon his return from Washington on Thursday.
The Cabinet approved Letter of Intentions and Schedule for implementing the reforms in relation to Bulgaria's NATO accession February 27.
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