Contents

125 Years Diplomatic Relations Bulgaria – Turkey

• Beginning of the diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Turkey
• Diplomatic representatives of Bulgaria and Turkey
• What matters is the road to the goal - Interview with H.E. Mr. Stoyan Stalev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Republic of Turkey
• Turkish-Bulgarian Relations: A Success Story - Interview with H.E. Mr. Haydar Berk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Republic of Bulgaria
• Interview with Mr. Ulukan Iyigun, Executive Director of Trakiya Glass Bulgaria EAD

OSCE

Official visits

Exclusive guest

• Plamen Panayotov, Vice Premier of the Republic of Bulgaria

Parliament. Government

• We are among the top three in discovering hazardous goods by the TRAPEX system - Damyan Lazarov, Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Consumers Protection
• Stamen Tasev, Deputy Finance Minister, about the tax changes

Highlights. Events. Meetings

Analyses – by Simeon Vassilev

Embassies. National Days

• Reception in honour of the visit of the Greek President Constantinos Stephanopoulos
• Reception in honour of the newly-appointed ambassadors of Japan and France
• Reception on the occasion of the accreditation of the Japanese Ambassador H.E. Mr. Koichiro Fukui
• Official dinner on the occasion of the final departure from the country of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Portugal H.E. Mr. Paulo Tiago Jeronimo Da Silva
• New Board of Classic FM Club
• Reception on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the revolution of 1956 in Hungary
• Globalization Philosophy - Mr. Neil Buhne on the UN Reform in the conditions of globalization
• Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian graduates of Czech and Slovak colleges and universities
• Reception on the occasion of the National day of the Republic of Austria
• National Day of the Czech Republic
• Reception on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey
• Interview with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Ukraine H.E. Mr. Yuriy Rylach
• Interview with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany H.E. Mr. Harald Kindermann
• Reception on the occasion of the opening of a honorary consulate of Mexico in Sofia
• Bulgaria is a transit point for the refugees - Interview with Boyko Antonov, Chairman of the State Agency for Refugees
• Orthodox Theology and the Contemporary World – 6th Congress of the Higher Orthodox Schools of Theology
• Orthodoxy is the Hope of the World - Interview with Rev. George Dion Dragas, Professor of Patrology
• Glorifying God with life and chants - Interview with Neofit, Metropolitan of Russe
• Patriarch Maxim turned 90

Bulgarian embassies

Cultural panorama

• Pleasure to be in Bulgaria - Interview with Jose Luis Turina
• A wonderful Georges Dandin in the National Theatre
• Balgari Gallery presented 30 unknown drawings of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maistora
• The Residence of the US Ambassador – an art centre
• Days of the Israeli film culture in Sofia
• Days of the Icelandic culture
• Slavonice and the beauty of the Czech Republic
• Hungarian Highlights
• Riorich and Bulgaria
• An attempt at a portrait of Bulgaria – exhibition and interview with the artist Rumen Statkov
• Terrorism after Madrid 2004 – new challenges
• New building of the Burgas Free University
• CINEMANIA 2004

Health

• Campaign for prevention of osteoporosis
• The Bulgarian “Anastasia”

History of the Bulgarian Diplomacy - He was a born diplomat

Achievements

• “Restaurant of the Year Bacchus – Chivas Regal 2004” award
• Bulgarians – Laureates of an Italian Title
• Prof. Hans Gerd Winter decorated with the honorary insignia with a blue ribbon
• Prof. Fritz Wagner – Doctor Honoris Causa of Sofia University
• The Children of Orpheus – interview with Venetsia Karamanova and Marta Nikolova
• Prof. Damyam Damyanov about Bulgarian science and medicine
• 20 years Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, Kardjali branch
• 60 Years Union of Scientists in Bulgaria

Bulgarian routes

• The Monasteries along the Nishava valley near Godech