European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has announced the appointment of Nataliya Apostolova as Head of the EU Delegation to Libya.
At a formal ceremony today, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Marin Raykov conferred awards on employees with more than 30 years professional service at the ministry. Senior diplomats were awarded the Golden Badge of Honour and Silver Honours were conferred on employees who had worked at the institution for more than three decades.
In view of the blockade of the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint and on the personal instructions of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Marin Raykov, Bulgaria’s Ambassador in Ankara, Krasimir Tulechki, made firm representations to the relevant institutions in Turkey.
This was the theme of the 123rd Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on May 16 in Strasbourg. Participants focused on opportunities to improve the performance of and co-ordination among the various monitoring mechanisms within the activities of the Council of Europe.
Bulgaria is a co-sponsor of the resolution adopted yesterday by the UN General Assembly in regard to the deepening crisis in Syria. This clear appeal by the world organization sends a firm message to the regime of President Assad to embark on dialogue and a process of political transition and to immediately stop violence against his own people.
“The European integration of our region cannot be complete without Kosovo participating in this process,” Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Marin Raykov said at a joint news conference with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi, who was on a one-day working visit to the country.
Bulgaria will finance a project worth $120 000 aimed at the education of young people in Mali, as one of the urgent priorities set out in the Recovery Plan for that country 2013-1014.
“The status and rights of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia is a key theme in Bulgarian-Serbian relations,” Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Marin Raykov said at a meeting with leading representatives of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia.
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have expressed thanks to Bulgaria for the 98 600 doses of vaccines against tetanus and diphtheria sent by the Bulgarian government in April.
Voting in Los Angeles and Sunnydale, California, US, ended this morning, bringing to an end voting abroad. In the United States, a total of 4238 Bulgarian citizens voted