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Bulgaria’s Cabinet nominates four ambassadors

Thu, Apr 01 2010 12:31 CET

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Bulgaria’s Cabinet nominates four ambassadors

Deputy Foreign Minister Marin Raikov, nominated to become Bulgaria's ambassador to France.

Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has nominated four ambassadors to serve in Paris, Washington and Skopje and at Unesco, respectively, subject to approval by President Georgi Purvanov.
 
Elena Poptodorova, who was ambassador in Washington from 2002 to 2008, has been nominated to serve a second term as Bulgaria’s ambassador to the United States.
 
Deputy Foreign Minister Marin Raikov has been named as Bulgaria’s ambassador-designate to France, to fill the vacancy left by Irina Bokova who has become head of Unesco.
 
The Foreign Ministry’s Rakovski Lashev has been nominated as ambassador to Macedonia and Alexander Savov, of the Foreign Ministry’s Unesco desk, to be Sofia’s envoy at Unesco.
 
The Foreign Ministry has prepared the documentation to nominate an ambassador to Turkey, but the name has not yet been disclosed.
 
The previous ambassadors in Washington and Ankara left office after being involved in controversies linked to alleged irregularities during voting at their embassies during Bulgaria’s 2009 elections.

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Преглед на профил Десен Tue, Apr 06 2010 12:26 CET
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Elena Poptodorova?
Have this government completely lost their minds?!
WTF

Anonymous Pete Thu, Apr 01 2010 20:17 CET
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I am sick and tired of the same old guards in our embassies abroad. What new is Poptodorova bringing to Washington? Nothing. She is very good for helping the former communists to sabotage the participation of Bulgarian emigrants in Parliamentary elections...


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