On October 26, 2022 Ambassador Boyan Belev met with Ziad Al-Makari - Caretaker Minister of Information of Lebanon. The reason for the visit was the proposal of Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) to establish permanent relations with Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) and provided details on this proposal. Minister Makari expressed his appreciation of this idea and readiness to work for its implementation.

On July 7, 2022, led by the head of the European Union Delegation (EUDEL) in Lebanon, Ambassador Ralph Tarraf, a group of ambassadors and diplomatic officials from 14 EU member states visited the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Nakura.

On June 8, 2022, Ambassador Boyan Belev visited the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Lebanon, where he met with George Callas – Minister of Youth and Sports of Lebanon.

On May 27, 2022, the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian Alphabet, education and culture, and of Slavic literature was celebrated at St. Joseph’s University (USJ) in Beirut, Lebanon. The event took place in a festive atmosphere, a documentary “The Road to Light” was screened, provided  by the State Cultural Institute in partnership with the National Research Program “Cultural Heritage, National Memory and Social Development” at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The children from the Bulgarian Sunday school “Ivan Vazov” in Beirut recited poems from Bulgarian classics, and the famous singer of Bulgarian origin Ms. Sofi Zein played a piece of music on the instrument qanun.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria through the Embassy / Consulate General of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Lebanese Republic announces a procedure for the acceptance and selection of proposals for projects to be implemented with a grant through the Official Development Assistance of the Republic of Bulgaria, with an initial implementation period in 2023.

On May 11, 2022, at the invitation of Ambassador Boyan Belev from the leadership of the University of St. Joseph (USJ) in Beirut, Lebanon, a working lunch was held in his area to discuss issues of cooperation in education and culture between the Embassy of Republic of Bulgaria and the University. Hosts were Professor Salim Dakkash - Rector of the University, Christian Taoutel - Head of the Department of History and International Relations at the Faculty of Literature and Human Studies (FLHS), Carl Akiki - Head of the Department of French Literature at FLHS and Mirna Gannage - lecturer of cognitive psychology. On the Bulgarian side, the meeting was attended by Ambassador Boyan Belev, Ivaylo Hristov - Councilor and Alexandrina Gigova - First Secretary. It was organized in response to the visit of professors Akiki and Tautel to the Bulgarian diplomatic mission earlier this year. Bulgarian diplomats were invited to take more active part in the events of the Francophone countries and confirmed their desire to do so. The possibility of the Embassy to use the university campus in Beirut to hold an event to mark an important event for the country was discussed, and talks were launched to realize this on the occasion of May 24 this year. Ambassador Belev thanked for the invitation and praised the proposal to use the university campus on the occasion of the upcoming Bulgarian holiday.

In order to improve the work efficiency of the Consul section at the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Beirut, starting from 11.10.2021 all consular and visa services will be provided by appointments only.

The Delegation of the European Union issues the following statement together with the diplomatic missions of the EU Member States in Lebanon: The EU Delegation and the EU Member States call on the Government of Lebanon and other decision-making bodies to restore, without further delays, their decision-making capability, which would inter alia require the resumption of regular meetings of the Council of Ministers, in order to address the dramatic crises Lebanon is facing.

Visas for citizens of the Lebanese Republic

The project is worth BGN 30 000 and aims to put Gibran’s library materials in digital format in order to preserve the legacy of the writer, philosopher and artist Khalil Gibran.