India says it sees no change in Pakistan's stance towards terrorism and is waiting for President Pervez Musharraf to take "substantive" steps towards curbing the activities of Islamic militants. Relations between India and Pakistan have soured to their wo
Bulgarian Telegraph Agency The government external debt totalled 8,593.
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Shumen Regional Forestry Administration has earned DEM 406,000 Deutsche marks from hunting tourism since the opening of the hunting Season.
Flag carrier Balkan will pay its debts to some of its creditors in the form of free flight tickets, according to the rehabilitation program of the carrier.
The Cabinet's policy was one of the issues discussed at the first 2002 meeting of the National Executive Council of the Union of Democratic Forces on January 8. The opposition underlined the already obvious, in their opinion, helplessness of the Cabinet t
The Executive Director of Lukoil Heftochim – Burgas Vladimir Rakitski might be appointed to another managerial position in the company, company source informed Dnevnik Daily. According to unofficial information Vladimir Rakitski might be appointed to a po
Three Bulgarians have been detained in a village near Libya's capital Tripoli for illegal production of alcohol, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced. After being interrogated, one of the Bulgarians was released.
The first contingent of 70 German troops is due to arrive in Afghanistan to join the international stabilisation force. They are due to join 32 Dutch troops for the journey onward to Kabul, via Trabzon in northern Turkey.
Steps are being taken for improving the travel conditions in the State Railways Company, Deputy Transport Minister Lyubomir Ivanov said.
70% of the Bulgarians older than 16 live under constant stress, results from a survey of the Center for Health show.
The anti-corruption program of the Cabinet will most probably be approved by next week, State Administration Minister Dimitur Kalchev said for the Bulgarian private national television bTV.
The diplomatic mission of Bulgaria in Afghanistan is to be restored, Bulgarian Foreign Ministry special envoy to Kabul Anguel Orbetsov said for the Bulgarian National Radio. The country will participate actively in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, most
The Bulgarian brigade that will guard the SFOR headquarters in Sarajevo left for Sarajevo after a special ceremony at the Sofia airport. The brigade consists of 150 Bulgarian officers, sergeants and soldiers.
Flag carrier Balkan will pay its debts to some of its creditors in the form of free flight tickets, according to the rehabilitation program of the carrier. Free tickets will be issued to people who could not travel with Balkan in the spring of 2001 when t
Ivan Christov was nominated Canada’s hero of the year 2001, Media Advisory Agency announced. The awarding ceremony took place in Toronto at the World’s Greatest Entertainment Center.
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Guenter Verheugen insisted that there are no exceptions of the Euro introduction in the EU candidate countries in an interview for a German radio. All new members of the union should be able to introduce the new currency on
Simeon II National Movement MPs will most probably demand the resignation of Deputy Finance Minister Atanas Katzarchev because of the chaos with the introduction of higher VAT on medicines. “He should meet his responsibility,” MP from the movement Antoniy
The court in the northern town of Razgrad appointed administrators at Diamond, Bulgaria’s largest flat glass maker, over an outstanding debt exceeding BGN 20 M. Bulgargas, gas distributor monopolist, sought the company’s insolvency, since its outstanding
The Ministry of Transport and Communications will make no additional payments to Italy’s company Alenia, Transport Minister Plamen Petrov said, quoted by Dnevnik Daily. The company was contracted in 1998 to supply new radar equipment for three commercial
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it is ready to work with Argentina to solve the debt-ridden country's problems. But IMF managing director Horst Koehler said Argentina's difficulties were "home-grown" and finding a solution would
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