President, Rosen Plevneliev, attended Saturday an emotional meeting with the Bulgarian community in Chicago. Plevneliev, who is on his first official visit to the US as Head of State, addressed theexpats ahead of the NATO summit in Chicago. The city is home of the largest Bulgarian diaspora in North America. The meeting was held at one of the Institutes of Chicago‘s Botanical Garden. The President greeted the attendees with: “Everywhere I [...]
May 20, 2012 | Posted in
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov and Qatari PM Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thaniin Bulgaria on Friday, reports say. Al Thani is to arrive to the Bulgarian capital on Thursday on the invitation of Borisov, while Erdogan’s short visit on Friday was announced yesterday. The Bulgarian National Radio has cited [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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All Bulgarian citizens are strongly advised to leave Syria as soon as possible, the spokesperson of Bulgaria‘s foreign affairs ministry has said. The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the same warning on March 17 and April 7, but on Thursday Vesela Cherneva repeated the calls. “We strongly advise all Bulgarian citizens to leave Syria as quickly as possible, while [...]
May 11, 2012 | Posted in
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Nationalist “hooligans” have staged an organized attack against a delegation led by the Bulgarian Ambassador in Macedonia Ivan Petkov, which was trying to lay flowers at the grave of Bulgarian revolutionary hero Gotse Delchev (1872-1903). The newly-appointed Bulgarian Ambassador Ivan Petkov together with local Macedonian Bulgarians attempted to lay wreaths at the grave of Gotse Delchev in the St. Spas Church in Skopje, on [...]
May 6, 2012 | Posted in
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18-member delegation from Qatar headed by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Khalid Al Attiyah will arrive in Bulgaria on May 3. Sofia will welcome high-ranking officials from a number of ministries, as well as representatives of investment companies based in Qatar. The group will arrive to prepare the forthcoming official visit to Bulgaria of [...]
May 2, 2012 | Posted in
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The freedom of the six Bulgarian medics formerly jailed in Libya over the notoriousLibyan HIV Trial has been granted in exchange for a nuclear power plant deal between French President Nicolas Sarcozy and Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, a report says. The deal was sealed in 2007, French magazine Les Inrocks states, citing secret documents it has allegedly obtained. The magazine has promised to reveal more details in [...]
April 30, 2012 | Posted in
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Zulu King, His Majesty Goodwill Zwelithini, has cancelled his planned visit to Bulgaria, the South African Embassy in Sofia has announced. King Goodwill Zwelithini was planned to be coming to Bulgaria to officiate at the week of South African Culture – May 7-11, 2012, with Bulgaria’s Culture MinisterVezhdi Rashidov having agreed to host the Zulu King, and having announced his visit last month. The South African [...]
April 25, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria is to inaugurate officially on Saturday its consulate in India‘s Hyderabad, to be headed by the CEO of a major local infrastructure player. Bulgarian Ambassador Borislav Kostov will formally inaugurate the consulate at a ceremony, to be attended by Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha and Minister for Civil Supplies and NRI Affairs D. Sridhar Babu. Bulgaria‘s government [...]
April 21, 2012 | Posted in
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Brazil has expressed condolences to all the victims of recent flooding in southern Bulgaria and offered its assistance. The Brazilian government has approved a donation of USD 50,000 to the Bulgarian Red Cross to aid those affected by the recent deadly flooding and especially those who have lost their homes. The official ceremony for presenting [...]
March 10, 2012 | Posted in
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US Ambassador in Sofia, James Warlick, officially opened the renovated Kermen Health Center Home in the town of Kermen, near the southern Bulgarian city of Sliven. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was also attended by the Regional Governor of Sliven, Marin Kavrakov, and other officials. The building was constructed in the distant 1906 and the US Government [...]
March 8, 2012 | Posted in
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