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Minister Georg Georgiev: Most important of all, our boys are alive and well in Bulgaria

23 January 2025 News

The two Bulgarian citizens, members of the crew of the Galaxy Leader, safely returned home on a government plane from the Sultanate of Oman. By order of the Prime Minister Mr. Rosen Zhelyazkov, a delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Georg Georgiev and including representatives of the institutions involved in the case was sent to Oman to finalize the process of the return of our compatriots to Bulgaria.

In his first words to them on home soil, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev stressed that the resolution of this complex case was achieved in the context of difficult domestic political processes, but the basic functions of the state, the work of its diplomacy and special services were preserved in full, and in close cooperation at all possible levels, together with foreign partners, today has become a fact. ‘What has been done in the last 430 days, the culmination of which has occurred in the last one week, is indicative of the strength of the state, of the state institutions that are able in their unity, in their actions, to demonstrate a resolve that can lead to such enormous success. I would like to underline in particular that today’s success is the result of the intensive and coordinated work of all the Bulgarian state agencies and institutions involved in the case and of their focused, consistent and persistent diplomatic efforts’, our first diplomat said.

‘We also extend a huge thank you to our international partners, the Sultanate of Oman, for assisting our boys to land unhindered in Muscat, to be transported from Sana'a to Oman and ultimately for us to be able to go and pick them up here. The assistance, which at any moment was selfless, was friendly, was such that demonstrated the attitude towards our country’, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister further pointed out. He thanked the two Bulgarian sailors for the courage, strength and presence of mind they had demonstrated throughout the time and which had given strength to those who had worked for their return to Bulgaria alive and well.

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