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Minister Vigenin participates in the 68th session of the UN
Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin will be on September 21 in New York to participate in the 68th session of the UN General Assembly.
21 September 2013
Bulgaria received support for the abolition of US visas
Bulgaria has my support and I will lobby for the abolition of visas for Bulgarian citizens who want to visit the US, Senator Christopher Murphy, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs, said during his meeting with Kristian Vigenin.
21 September 2013
Kristian Vigenin visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum
Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum and spoke with Museum Director Sara Bloomfield.
20 September 2013
Firm and stable development of Bulgaria - US relations
The 110th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and the United States was marked with luncheon at the Library of Congress.
20 September 2013
Newly appointed Bulgarian ambassadors to Vietnam and Canada underwent hearing by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing today of the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to Vietnam, Evgeni Stoychev, and the Ambassador to Canada, Nikolay Milkov.
19 September 2013
Bulgarian consular office in Kyiv issued 200 000th visa
On September 19, the consular office of the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Ukraine issued its 200 000th visa for 2013. The recipient, Russian citizen Lubov Kravchenko, is to come to the country as a tourist.
19 September 2013
Working visit of Minister Kristian Vigenin to Washington DC
Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin will pay a working visit to Washington DC on 18-20 September.
18 September 2013
Prof. Kiril Topalov presented his credentials
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to the Holy See, Prof. Kiril Topalov, presented his credentials to Pope Francis on September 14, 2013. Ambassador Topalov held long conversations, exceeding the protocol-specified time, with the Pope and with the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone.
17 September 2013
Working meeting of the Bulgarian and Macedonian foreign ministry experts
The fifth meeting of the Bulgarian and Macedonian foreign ministry working groups related to the preparation of a draft treaty on friendship, good-neighbourly relations and co-operation, took place in Kriva Palanka on September 17, 2013.
17 September 2013
Minister Vigenin meets with the Ambassadors of Qatar and Iraq
Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin met today with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to Sofia, Mohammed Ali Said Al Nuaymi, and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq to Bulgaria, Asaad al-Samarrai.
16 September 2013