Bulgaria supports a continued open-door policy beyond Prague, President Parvanov said at the alliance summit, after Bulgaria was invited to accession talks with NATO November 21. Today we made a decisive step towards the unification of Europe, Parvanov sa
"The invitation to join NATO is recognition of the tremendous effort and impressive progress that Bulgaria has made in recent years. You have remade this country, and demonstrated your commitment to the values that define the Western community of democra
Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva left for a working visit to the Netherlands. In Hague, she will meet Dutch State Secretary for European Affairs Atzo Nicolai.
The accession talks with the seven newly invited countries, among which Bulgaria, will kick off immediately, according to a declaration approved by the governmental heads and the heads of state of the nineteen NATO members. The aim is the ratification pro
NATO leaders pledged "effective action" to help the United Nations disarm Iraq and approved a new rapid strike force for long-distance, high-intensity warfare, designed to adapt an expanded NATO to what they see as 21st century security threats. The allia
Concrete projects for investments in the machine-building industry, agriculture and metallurgy sectors were presented in Delhi by Alexander Tomov, leader of the Bulgaria's Euroleft Party. Tomov left for India several days ago for a Forum of businessmen an
The Washington Post SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The International Monetary Fund and Bulgaria's government failed to agree on the 2003 state budget, delaying the further disbursement of funds to this Balkan country, officials said Wednesday.
"I congratulate all Bulgarians for the recognition that we were granted," Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said in his speech on occasion of NATO's invitation. He paid a tribute to all politicians who "worked tirelessly for this goal over the
I am just as excited as all the other Bulgarians, because it is important for the country's progressive development, former Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov said. The country must live up to the challenges ahead, summon our power for attracting more inv
Two Bulgarian pickpockets have been arrested in the Switzerland's town of Basel, Basler Zeitung newspaper reported. The girls, aged nine and fifteen, have been detained during a police raid, launched after cases of pick pocketing in the town sharply incre
The ministers decided to postpone their regular meeting to Friday morning. The ministers preferred to attend the session of parliament on draft budget 2003.
"By welcoming seven members, we will not only add to our military capabilities, we will refresh the spirit of this great democratic alliance, " President Bush told fellow leaders, calling NATO "our nation's most important alliance." Bush congratulated the
The Bulgarian and NATO flags were rolled down the building of the National Palace of Culture as the news for NATO invitation broke. The Atlantic Club in Bulgaria initiated this event.
Bulgaria's Cabinet sees NATO's decision to invite seven East European countries as a historic step. The government adopted a declaration that hails this move saying the unnatural Cold War division in Europe is now a matter of the past.
The right-wing opposition United Democratic Forces (UDF) called for a new national consensus on Bulgaria's "dignified" NATO membership November 21. The declaration read in Parliament by Dimitur Abadzhiev, UDF deputy chairman of the National Executive Coun
Parliament adopted a declaration on the invitation extended by NATO in Prague with 210 votes in favor, one vote against and two abstaining votes. One MP voted against and two MPs abstained from leftist Coalition for Bulgaria.
Bulgaria is going through a historic period, Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said in Parliament regarding Bulgaria's NATO invitation. In his opinion the fact that Bulgaria received NATO invitation proved that Bulgaria after thir
Bulgaria's invitation to join NATO is the greatest event in the country's history that marks at the beginning of the new millennium. Plamen Panayotov, chair of the parliamentary group of ruling Simeon II National Movement, said that in Parliament hailing
Bulgaria entered a new historical period with this invitation to NATO, Foreign Minister Passy told the national radio from Prague. He highlighted that big mobilization was necessary to get ratification in a year and a half.
All nineteen members of NATO backed the decision for invitation of seven East European countries to join the alliance. Tony Blair, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, hailed NATO's eastward expansion at the opening session of the North Atlantic Coun
All parliamentary represented parties in Bulgaria, a former fervent ally of Moscow, are looking forward to the NATO, Germany's newspaper Hannoverische Allgemeine Zeitung, writes. Even the socialists, descendants of the communist party, who protested again
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