Bulgaria is ready to provide assistance to Afghanistan, Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov announced. He explained that a special document has been prepared to be presented at the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan that wi
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit visits Washington this week hoping to dissuade President Bush from making Turkey's neighbor Iraq the next target of the "war on terror." Few doubt that Iraq will be top of the agenda when Ecevit, flying to Washington M
A mid-sized cargo plane crashed in northern Spain early on Monday, killing its three crew members, an executive of Ibertrans, the package-delivery company that operated the plane, told CNN. The Brazilian-made dual propeller Embraer 120 lost contact with t
Preliminary data show that the losses of the flag carrier Balkan for 2001 are over BGN 57 M, Balkan’s creditor Olga Milenkova announced. “ We are holding talks with Bulgarian banks for getting a loan amounting to USD 4 or 5 M, which will allow Balkan to l
Donka Paprikova, known as the Bulgarian “Mother Teresa,” became honorary citizen of Sofia, the Sofia city councilors agreed unanimously. Paprikova is founder of the first hospice in Bulgaria.
Candidatures for the six vacant ambassador posts and for those, whose mandates are to expire, are going to be discussed at two levels – at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at consultations among Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, President Petur Stoyanov and
A new radio Radio Net 33 started to broadcast its 24-hour youth-oriented programme on January 13. The offices of the radio, whose motto is "I want to tell you something", are located in downtown Sofia.
The Sofia city councillors from the United Democratic Forces who are members from the Bulgarian democratic union “Radicals,” headed by expelled from the Union of Democratic Forces Evgeny Bakurdzhiev intend to form a new group within the Sofia Municipality
Erhard Busek, the new Stability Pact Special Coordinator for South-Eastern Europe arrives in Bulgaria to receive the first class honorary medal `Stara Planina.` President Stoyanov will award Busek with the medal on January 15 for his merits as coordinator
Bulgarian famous singer Valya Balkanska celebreted her 60th anniversary. The glamorous career of the talented Balkanska, born in the Rhodopes mountains, began with the song “Izlel e Delyu Haidutin.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair held telephone talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki on the deepening political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, officials said on Sunday. Leaders of the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) bl
The consultant Deutsche bank will table the privatization strategy for the sale of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) in the Privatization Agency today, the Bulgarian National radio reported. The document envisages the privatization procedure
Al Qaeda militants practiced carrying out a mass assassination of world leaders and an attack on a motorcade, according to a video obtained in Afghanistan and broadcast on Australian television. The Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The Indian military is reporting a new militant attack in Kashmir, despite Islamabad's new pledge to root out terrorism. Two suspected militants were shot to death after they allegedly tried to attack a paramilitary camp in Srinigar Sunday.
The Bulgarian state railways company plans to raise passenger fees in the second half of 2002 to compensate for the inflation and meet a World Bank requirement to reduce losses, Dnevnik Daily wrote.
Orgachim private dye and varnish producer will hold talks with the Finance Ministry to find ways to repay debt on bad-debt domestic governmental bonds, or ZUNKs, in order to reduce the company’s losses, Valeri Petrov, the plant’s Executive Director said.
Sofia mayor will appeal Euro bond issue breach accusations "I'll appeal to the Prosecutor’s Office against the accusations of criminal breach of trust on the Sofia Municipality Euro bond issue," Sofia Mayor Stefan Sofianski said. He will also appeal to t
Bulgaria and the European Union agreed to liberalize fully their trade in fish and fish products, the Agriculture Ministry announced in a special statement. According to the agreement, which is part of the Bulgarian negotiations to join EU, trade in carp,
Two creditors of the Varna shipyard rejected the evaluation of the shipyard’s long-term assets prepared by the consulting company PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC) as too high. These two creditors demanded from the Varna Regional Court to convene a shareholde
A Deutsche bank-led consortium extended a USD 13 M loan to the Bulgarian private bank First Investment Bank (FIB). The loan is to be used to back up short-term export and import financing of FIB clients, Executive Director Maya Georgieva said, quoted by D
Responding to an ultimatum from President Andres Pastrana, Colombia's largest rebel group said Sunday it will give up its control of a 16,000-square-mile demilitarized zone. The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym
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