Nearly 300 US servicemen who take part in the international exercise `Cooperative Key - 2001`started to go back to their permanent bases on September 14, the Director of the Press Center colonel Stoyanov announced. The participants were ordered to return.
The Bulgarian President Stoyanov and Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg honored the memory of the innocent victims from the US terrorist attacks with one-minute silence at 12 noon on September 14. `Huge tragedy.
The Macedonian Prime Minister Ljupce Georgijevski accepted the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Saxe-Coburg to visit Bulgaria on September 18 and September 19, diplomatic sources from Skopje disclosed. The visit is still expected to be officially c
The government granted BGN 12,000 financial aid to the relatives of the Bulgarian medics who were charged with intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV. The money will be used for the travel expenses of the relatives for the September 22 hearing i
The IMF leader to Bulgaria Jerald Schiff cancelled his visit to Bulgaria on September 14, the mission in Bulgaria announced. Talks between the government and the fund were planned for the visit.
The Turkish consortium of the businessman Aidin Dogan and Demirbank`s former owner Halit Cingiliolu are the new owners of Demirbank`s Bulgarian branch. The Turkish agency for bank regulation approved the deal.
The Finance Ministry will give interest free loans to the poorest municipalities. The money will be used for unpaid salaries for the state employees, the Finance Minister Milen Velchev announced in the Parliament.
`The strategy for the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company /BTC/ privatization is in an advanced stage,` Minister of Transport and Communications Plamen Petrov said. Two options are considered: selling BTC with a package of stock and a license agreement f
The National Insurance Institute /NII/ reported BGN 373 M excess spending in FY 2000. The report was voted by parliament on second reading.
The man with the Slavic name Alex Philipov who flew with one of the hijacked airplanes that hit the World Trade Center in New York is not Bulgarian, Dnevnik Daily wrote. The wife of the victim told that to a reporter of Dnevnik Daily who called her in her
Associated Press By MARA D.
What happened in the United States is not an American tragedy only. It is a tragedy, a lesson and a cause for thought for the entire humanity,` said Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov at a meeting with 400 firefighters from throughout the country in conne
In all probability, two Bulgarians have been victims of the terrorist attacks in New York, Standart daily reported. From September 11 no one heard from Stoyan Ivanov, who worked in the World Trade Center.
`The Prime Minister spoke to me personally shortly after these incidents. I`ve had personal contacts with other members of the government and with the opposition.
SOFIA, BULGARIA September 13, 2001
Bulgaria will buy F-16 fighters to get its air forces ready for NATO, defence minister Nikolai Svinarov said for Reuters. In the first place, however, we shall have to repair and sell the Russian MIG-29s.
Immediately after the new board of directors of Bulgartabac Holding is registered, I`ll ask the State Financial Control to carry out a prompt audit of the whole venture, said Vice-Premier Nikolay Vassilev yesterday. The checkups of the enterprises in diff
The resignation of John Munnery, Managing Director of the Mobile Telecommunications Company Mobikom was voted September 13 at the general meeting of the Radio Telecommunications Company. Managers of the company for a one-year period were elected Tim Buiss
The President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel cancelled his one-day working visit to Bulgaria, scheduled for September 14, 2001. He was invited by the Bulgarian President, Petur Stoyanov.
World Bank Director to Bulgaria Andrew Vorking had a meeting with the Bulgarian government. `If the new government continues the reforms which Bulgaria had already started, I am absolutely sure that the bank`s intention is to release the maximum financing
The Bulgarian Red Cross organized an urgent blood donating campaign as gesture of moral commitment to the American people`s tragedy. The web site www.
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