Representatives of the Political and Military Steering Committee of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council arrived on September 19 at the Graf Ignatievo air base near Plovdiv. The purpose of the group is to observe the organization of the ongoing multinati
An electric switchboard in a water treatment building of the Kozlodouy nuclear plant went on fire at 12.30 pm on September 19.
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy will attend the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe member states. The meeting will take place in Romania on October 3 and October 4 this year.
The Macedonian Agriculture Minister Marian Gyorchev and the Bulgarian Deputy Agriculture Minister Boyko Boev decided to form an expert group for bigger bilateral cooperation in the sector. The experts will work on the improvement of the quality control of
Nearly 600 Bulgarians, mainly from the town Mezdra, are threatened to lose their jobs and professional qualification, since the the metallurgical plant Eliseina may go bankrupt. The overall debts of the plant are BGN 1.
`The Privatization Agency informed the Transport Minister that there are no legal reasons for revising the Hemus Air deal,` Georgi Popov from Pirin Tourist, majority owner of the aviation company, told reporters. A letter, signed by the agency`s CEO Apost
The privatization of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company /BTC/ and the current condition of the Bulgarian State Railways /BDZ/ were the main topics at the meeting between the Transport Minister Plamen Petrov and the International Monetary Fund repres
Daewoo Engineering and Construction cancels the deal on the sale of its 67-percent stake in Sheraton Sofia Balkan to International Hotel Investments, Reuters announced. The majority owner of the hotel has informed the stock exchange in Seoul that the sale
More than 60 Bulgarian nationals from New York and Washington are being looked for by the Bulgarian General Consulate, Elena Poptodorova, spokeswoman of Foreign Ministry, said. Till now, contacts have been established with only ten of the searched people.
Krassimir Angarski, economy advisor of Bulgaria`s President, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Managers of the DSK (State Saving Bank) yesterday. He was elected by the new Supervisory Council, including the Deputy Finance Minister Kiril Ananiev, Depu
Bulgarian airPlane to Hit Oslo was the plan of Palestinian terrorists in 1966, told a correspondent of the Russian daily `Novye Izvestia` in Sweden quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio yesterday. According to the newspaper, a 23-year-old Hazem Abdahla w
Levski will play against Chelsea only with one forward this evening on `Stamford Bridge` in London. The match is from the first leg of the tournament for the WEFA Cup.
`The Pleven `Neft i Gaz` company discovered a commercially significant deposit of natural gas and oil-condensate at 3,850 m below ground near Butane in the Pleven region,` Chief Executive Officer Krasimir Manov said on 18 September, quoted by BTA. The dai
Foreign Minister Solomon Passy starts a two-day visit to Hungary on September 20. His Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi invited him.
A member delegation of the European Round Table of Industrialists will arrive in Sofia next Monday to meet the new Bulgarian government. Baron Daniel Janssen, Chairman of the Board of Solvay, will lead the industrialists` delegation.
Reuters Bulgaria`s analogue mobile phone operator Mobikom said on Wednesday that Inquam, a U.
The Interior Ministry sent instructions to all Bulgarian Embassies abroad to increase their readiness for evacuation, Darik Radio announced. The embassies should establish contact with as many as possible people in the respective country.
`The relatives of the Bulgarian medics in Libya haven`t received their visas yet,` the spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry Elena Poptodorova announced. The journalists who want to be present at the trial also haven`t got their visas.
The Presidential elections will take place on November 11, 2001. The political parties reached consensus on the issue after consultations.
Russian news agency ITAR-TASS On the initiative of the Bulgarian side, `the visa-free regulations for the travel of the citizens of Russia and Bulgaria are to be terminated,` effective from 1 October 2001, said a press release issued by Russia`s Foreign
The Bulgarian citizens traveling to the Unites States, Canada and Israel through Great Britain will no longer need visas, the British Embassy in Bulgaria announced. The British Foreign Ministry initiated the visa requirement for travelers from all nationa
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