The Foreign Ministry expects more active economic relations with Iraq to follow the changes in the regulations for trade with Iraq, made by the UN Security Council. The resolution, which the UN Security Council passed unanimously, adopting a Goods Review
The child welfare organization SOS-Kinderdorf International, which implements projects for social integration of parentless children, will continue to operate in Bulgaria, country director Plamen Stoyanov said, thus denying reports that the organization w
Bulgaria hopes to complete in July the sell-off of Bulgaria’s fourth largest bank Biochim and by March 2003 – that of State Savings Bank DSK, an official from the Bank Consolidation Company, announced. Biochim and DSK are the only two state-owned banks ou
Pope John Paul II celebrates his 82nd birthday Saturday with 7,000 invited pilgrims at the Vatican, despite concerns for his health that caused two cardinals to speak of his possible resignation. Invited guests at a special birthday audience with the pont
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Early results from voting in Ireland's general election show gains for Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's centre-right Fianna Fail party, widely tipped to win by a landslide. Results from three constituencies using electronic ballots showed Fianna Fail took si
The political controversy in the United States over accusations that the Bush administration failed to act on intelligence reports before the 11 September attacks is intensifying. President George Bush on Friday made his first personal statement on the is
The press center of the Interior Ministry is to made public the security measures to be imposed during the Papal visit to Bulgaria (www.popeinbulgaria.
Nine Bulgarian sailors from the fishing boats detained in Romania returned to Bulgaria late in the night of May 17. They said that one of the arrested captains who remain under arrest is kept in one cell with another nine men.
Bulgaria’s good relations with the Balkan countries will be a great advantage in its EU accession, Dimitris Kourkoulas, Head of Delegation of the European Commission said at his meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev. The
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Comprehensive policy should be developed to attract Chinese investments, President Parvanov said at his meeting with a Chinese delegation led by Li Ruihuan, Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Council. The Head of State underlined that Bulgari
The Vatican expects the Papal visit to Bulgaria with excitement and hope, Bulgarian Ambassador to the Holy See Vladimir Gradev said in an exclusive interview for novinite.com.
At a meeting with Jerald Schiff, head of the IMF mission to Bulgaria, President Georgi Parvanov expressed his concerns related to the limited municipal budgets and the problems that might arise from that in autumn. Parvanov expressed the hope that the go
The General Director of Microsoft Bulgaria Teordor Milev officially presented the State Administration Minister Dimitur Kalchev with license that enables the state administration to use the Bulgarian version of MS Windows and MS office XP. In late March,
Bulgaria has a lot of reforms to implement in order till NATO membership, James Pardew, the newly appointed US ambassador to Bulgaria said after his first meeting with Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Passy. Illegal deals with arms and relating Bulgaria to the
The toll of people killed by a brutal heat wave in southern India continues to climb as reports trickle in from rural districts, the government said. Temperatures that had soared to 45 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) along the Bay of Bengal have
At the recommendation of NATO, the air sovereignty systems of Bulgaria and Romania were integrated, the chief of the General Staff of the Bulgarian army, General Miho Mihov announced after his meeting with his Romanian counterpart General Popescu in the c
The Cabinet will draw a national strategy for the young people in Bulgaria till the end of the year, Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg announced in Parliament. The establishment of an expert interdepartmental group on the problems of the young people has
Hundreds honoured the memory of Svetlana Gebreva at her funeral on May 17. Svetlana Gebreva, Deputy Director of State construction control, diseased early in the morning of May 14 at the age of 36.
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