• The Minister of Energy and Energy Resources Milko Kovachev made a visit to Paris
• The Minister of Defence Nikolay Svinarov visited Jordan
• Bulgarian-Greek Consultations
• The holders of service passports will be able to travel to Turkey without visas
• Bulgaria introduces a visa regime for the Serbian nationals
• PACE Envoy met with our medics in Benghazi
• President Parvanov and Minister Passy paid their last respects to the body of Boris Trajkovski in Skopje
• The “1001 Candles” show of “7 days” TV marked its first year
• Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha made a visit to Luxemburg
• Bulgaria marked the rescue of the Bulgarian Jewish community
• The governments of Bulgaria and Lebanon exchanged the ratification documents of four intergovernmental treaties
• Dimitar Vesselinov presented his “History of French Language Teaching during the Bulgarian Revival Period”
• The American President requested keeping of the investment treaties with Bulgaria
• 28 Bulgarian companies took part in the International Tourist Exchange in Berlin
• Bulgarian cardiologists will perform operations in Yemen
• Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Ministers from the cabinet honoured the memory of the victims of the terror acts in Madrid
• Germany’s Bundeswehr Inspector General visited Bulgaria
• The Bulgarian President received a delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Meeting of the Bulgarian participants in the 16 working groups of the Central European Initiative (CEI)
• European experts gave a positive assessment to the Bulgarian experience in youth activities
• The term for registration of foreigners in our country has been extended
• The Leader of “The Peacekeeping English Project (PEP)” received an award from the Ministry of Defence
• Bulgaria and Romania will enhance their cooperation in the defence of strategic sites along the common border of the two countries
• Bulgarian Tourism Information Centre to be established in Moscow
• Bulgaria appeals to the sides in the Middle East Conflict to show wisdom and restraint
• President Georgi Parvanov voiced in Madrid Bulgaria’s solidarity with the anguish of Spain after March 11
• Bulgaria to receive 28 M EUR under the Phare Cross Border Co-operation Programmes with Greece and Romania
• The Agricultural Ministers of Bulgaria and Austria signed a memorandum for cooperation
• The transport ministers of Bulgaria and Macedonia discussed the development of Transport Corridor VIII
• The Ambassador of Ukraine to Bulgaria Viacheslav Pokhvalskyi was awarded with a Stara Planina Order before his final departure from the country
• Meeting of Deputy Ministers of CEFTA Member Countries

European Union

• Bulgaria’s accession into the European Union threatened by the country’s judicial system
• Minister Passy took part in a conference entitled: “Towards an Enlarged Europe – the New Agenda”
• A meeting-discussion “The Road of Cyprus to the European Union” was held in Sofia
• The Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the 15 EU member-states in Brussels adopted the financial framework for Bulgaria
• The draft of the future Constitution of Europe was translated in Bulgaria

Ecology

• The newly-established company “EcoPack Bulgaria” creates the first ever joint package leftovers recycling system in Bulgaria
• The Ministry of Environment and Waters funded the publishing of a new "Red Book of the Republic of Bulgaria”
• On March 16, 2004, Memorandum for Cooperation was signed officially between the Ministry of Environment and Water and the Foreign Investment Agency
• National Celebration of the World Day for Water
• Minister Dolores Arsenova extended gratitude to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID