Bulgaria announces names of 24 new ambassador-designates

Bulgaria announces names of 24 new ambassador-designates

Wed, Jan 25 2012 13:56 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Dimitar Tsanchev

Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev

Konstantin Dimitrov, left, and Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov

Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev

Twenty-four ambassador-designates, including two current deputy foreign ministers, were nominated at a meeting on January 25 2012 of Bulgaria’s Cabinet.

Deputy Foreign Minister Konstantin Dimitrov has been named ambassador-designate to the United Kingdom and Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitar Tsanchev as ambassador to the EU.

The Foreign Ministry’s permanent secretary, Radi Naidenov, has been nominated as ambassador to Germany.

Nikola Kolev, former chief of staff of the armed forces and former chief of staff of ex-president Purvanov, has been nominated as Bulgaria’s ambassador to The Netherlands.

The nomination of the ambassadors by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right Government is part of the process of changing the face of Bulgaria’s diplomacy abroad, which was reiterated at July 25 talks between Borissov and President Rossen Plevneliev. Plevneliev, as head of state, has pledged not to appoint any ambassadors who collaborated with the country’s former communist-era secret services.

The full list of nominees, as announced, is:

* Albania – Dimitar Arnaudov
* Bosnia and Herzegovina – Angel Angelov
* The Vatican – Kiril Marichkov
* Germany – Radi Naidenov
* Greece – Emiliya Kraleva
* Egypt – Roumen Petrov
* Italy – Angel Cholakov
* China – Plamen Shukerliev
* Kuwait – Plamen Ulshevski
* Romania – Alexandar Filipov
* The Netherlands – Nikola Kolev
* Serbia – Angel Dimitrov
*  Bulgarian representation to the UN in New York – Stefan Tafrov
* Macedonia – Ivan Petkov
* Austria – Elena Shekerletova
* Belgium – Veselin Valkanov
* Hungary – Biserka Benisheva
* The United Kingdom – Konstantin Dimitrov
* UN – Geneva – Ivan Piperkov
* Brussels, Bulgarian representation to the EU – Dimitar Tsanchev
* Yemen – Boris Borisov
* South Africa – Katya Deleva
* Slovakia – Margarita Ganeva
* Ukraine – Krasimir Minchev

Several of Bulgaria’s embassies abroad have been headed by charges d’affaires after the Dossier Commission revelations about serving diplomats who had been involved with Bulgaria’s communist-era State Security.

Further nominations of ambassadors are to be made in the coming three weeks, Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov said.

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