Bulgarian President Stoyanov officially promoted the Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry Boyko Borrissov to General. "The rank of general is a dream for every officer but a great responsibility at the same time," President Petur Stoyanov said at the
The United Democratic Forces support the iniatiative for legislative amendments in the Bulgarian Constitution that will harmonize the Bulgarian legislation with the EU laws, expressed by the new Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov in his speech after swea
The President of MG Corporation Iliya Pavlov signed the global compact agreement in the headquarters of UN in New York at the invitation of Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Annan first proposed the Global Compact in an address to the W
Bulgaria has been invited to participate in the discussions and expert meetings of the Coordinating and Drafting Group (CDG) which is preparing documents connected with the situation in former Yugoslavia, the Foreign Ministry announced.
In 2001, 167 tip-offs for corruption and violations in the Interior Ministry were investigated and 85 were confirmed. This emerged at a meeting of the intradepartmental council for counteraction of corruption with the Interior Ministry.
6,000 officers, sergeants and civilian employees of the Bulgarian Land Forces will be made redundant in 2002, Land Forces staff chief Major General Kiril Tsvetkov said in Plovdiv.
Speaking ahead of a donors' conference next week, Japan's special envoy for Afghanistan on Saturday urged the global community to commit to the long haul to rebuild the country, shattered by war and disaster. Donors are set to pledge billions of dollars t
A federal judge Friday denied a request to televise the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person charged in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
President George W. Bush on Friday spoke by telephone to Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde and assured him that the United States will help Argentina when his government commits to a sound, sustainable economic recovery plan.
Refugees are continuing to flee a devastating volcanic eruption in central Africa amid fears of a major humanitarian crisis in the region. Hundreds of thousands of people left their homes after the Nyiragongo volcano erupted on Thursday, with smoking lava
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Friday he thinks Osama bin Laden has not been able to get treatment for his kidney disease and is most likely dead.
Israeli soldiers blew up the building housing the headquarters of the Voice of Palestine radio service and some Palestinian television studio facilities early Saturday, eyewitnesses told CNN. It was the latest action by Israel to step up pressure on the P
Between january 2 and january 16, the commercial banks and the National Bank of Bulgaria (BNB) exchanged Euroland legacy currencies for 25,558,000 euros, BNB Chief Treasurer Rumyan Chobanov said. During the same period, commercial banks sold over EUR 22.
Bulgaria is expected to produce more than 50,000 t of tobacco in 2002, of which 37,616 t of small-leaved Oriental tobacco, and 8,798 t of the broad-leaved Virginia and 4,543 t of the broad-leaved Burley type, the Agriculture Ministry announced. The expect
3,000 mental hospital patients can sue the State in the European Court in Strasbourg for violations of the European Conventionion on Human Rights and win, Krassimir Kunev, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee Chairman said, commenting on a report of the Committee
Unemployment in 2001 is less than a year ago, according to Social Ministry data. In December the unemployed were 20 532 less than a year ago.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis arrives in Bulgaria on January 22 on a one-day working visit at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Saxe-Coburg. Simitis and Saxe-Coburg will attend the presidential changeover ceremony.
A program for the recovery of the industry in 2002 and a report on Bulgaria's economic performance in 2001 were discussed at a four-hour meeting by the ministers and the floor leaders of the Simeon II National Movement and the Movement for Rights and Free
At a seminar in Bansko, the parliamentary group of “Coalition for Bulgaria” may discuss a demand for ministerial changes in the Bulgarian Government, according to Mladen Chervenyakov, spokesman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The MPs will also discuss t
President Stoyanov met former Romanian President Emil Konstantinesku who is at a working visit to Bulgaria. Later during the day Stoyanov had a farewell meeting with journalists.
"It is possible to write off some of the debts owed by Afghanistan to Bulgaria. Afghanistan owes Bulgaria USD 40 M in principal alone.
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