Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin participated in the informal meeting of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs, which was held on 6-7 September in Vilnius.
The head of the Diplomatic Representation of the Republic of Bulgaria in Ramallah, Svilen Bozhanov, presented his credentials to the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas.
Today an Operations Headquarters, aimed at working on the crisis in Syria, was set up at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is headed by the Deputy Foreign Minister Todor Churov.
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing today of the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the French Republic, Angel Cholakov, and the Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, Ivan Sirakov.
The main topic of the conversation was the Syrian crisis and its humanitarian and migration consequences for the region and the EU, including Bulgaria.
A hotline to assist Bulgarian citizens in difficulties because of crises and disasters abroad is being introduced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from September 1 2013.
A plan with 11 urgent measures to reduce the migration pressure on Bulgaria was adopted at today's emergency meeting of the Security Council at the Council of Ministers , the government's press service said. The measures are:
Bulgaria’snewly-appointed Permanent Representative to NATO, Ivan Naydenov, haspresented his credentials to the Secretary-General,Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
On August 28 2013, the State Cultural Institute, in co-operation with the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Sofia and with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, marked the International Day Against Nuclear Tests.