The new Ambassador of the United States to Bulgaria H.E. Herro Mustafa and her family have arrived in Sofia. She is a career diplomat born in 1973 in Iraq to a Kurdish family. She spent two years of her childhood in a refugee camp. In 1976 her family was granted right of asylum in the US. H.E. Mustafa has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a master's degree from Princeton University. She is fluent in nine languages, including Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Farsi.

"We appreciate the significance of the relations of traditional friendship and mutually advantageous cooperation between Bulgaria and Cambodia," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Wednesday as he conferred with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is paying an official visit here.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that Bulgaria supports the EU-Turkey deal on refugees, not Ankara's operation in Syria, and called for an end to fighting. Borissov was answering a question after Tuesday's meeting of the Security Council, the advisory and coordinating body with the Council of Ministers, over the exacerbation of the situation in Syria.

Bulgaria's Ambassador to India Eleonora Dimitrova has signed, on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, an agreement with India's VFS Global outsourcing company, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Another plot to escape both an imminent bankruptcy and prosecution has been put into motion by the indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev. This one is similar to his desperate fleeing to Singapore in 2010-2013, when he posed as a victim of some supposed attempted murder in the works just so he can get out of hundreds of millions of levs in debt.

Bulgaria's continued support for Skopje's EU accession bid depends on whether North Macedonia stands by its obligations under the already signed treaty on mutual relations between the two countries, Bulgarian leaders agreed last Monday at a consultative meeting in Sofia held by President Rumen Radev. According to Radev, North Macedonia cannot make progress towards the EU at the expense of Bulgarian interests, insisting there are red lines that can not be crossed. Skopje hopes to get a date to start accession talks in the coming weeks.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Thursday met with the government leader of the Republic of Korea, Lee Nak-yeon, on the third day of his official visit here. Speaking at a news briefing in the government headquarters in Seoul, Borissov said that both countries have made education and culture their priority which is why he attaches topmost importance to relations between universities.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who is paying an official visit to the Republic of Korea between September 24 and 27, laid a wreath at the main memorial tower of Seoul National Cemetery on Wednesday. He paid tribute to the memory of Korean nationals who died as members of the national independence movement in the Korean War and in the Vietnam War.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered 59 political parties and seven coalitions for entry in the October 27, 2019 local elections, CEC member and Spokesperson Alexander Andreev told journalists here on Thursday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov pays a visit to Berlin Tuesday where he is a guest of honour at the Christian Social Union (CSU) session in the Bundestag. Borissov is visiting at the invitation of group leader Alexander Dobrindt.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Borissov, Dobrindt described the Bulgarian Prime Minister as "one of our closest friends in Europe" and praised Borissov and his government's achievements in the recent years, the information service of the Bulgarian government said in a press release Tuesday.