Around 50 Bulgarians want to be evacuated from Israel because of the escalation of tension in the Middle East, Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev said in Plovdiv, Yanitsa Marova from BNR’s Radio Plovdiv reports. He added that the lists are constantly being updated as this is not a compact group located in just one town.
“We are acting in such a way as to guarantee, inasmuch as possible, a safe route because these people have to leave a very dangerous zone, pass through another danger zone and go to a third zone that is no less dangerous,” Minister Georgiev said. The speed with which the Bulgarians in Israel will be evacuated is not as important as their safety, and that is precisely what the government with all authorities and services engaged in this, are working towards. There is no danger to the people working at the Bulgarian embassy who have decided to stay on the ground, Georg Gerorgiev said, because every building in Israel has its bomb shelter.
Bulgaria is in constant contact with our embassies in Tel Aviv and in Tehran, and is being briefed on the situation on the ground, he said further. There are people who want to be evacuated from Iran as well, he added.
Edited by Diana Tsankova
Translated and posted by Milena Daynova
Photos: BTA
US investors are in Sofia this week for talks with Bulgarian authorities on the expansion of the Chiren gas storage facility in northwestern Bulgaria - a project that could become a new battleground between supporters and opponents of Russian natural gas..
Burgas will host celebrations marking the 146th anniversary of the Bulgarian Navy , BNR Burgas reported. A military wreath-laying ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. today at the Sailor’s Monument in the Sea Garden . That evening, the Navy’s..
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range from 16 °C to 21 °C , with 16 °C in Sofia. It will be mostly sunny during the day, but rain and thunderstorms are expected after noon, mainly in northwestern and mountainous areas. Rain clouds will also form..
Job offers in all sectors of the Bulgarian economy are decreasing in July, according to the analysis of a leading online job posting platform in the..
More than 4 , 500 of woodland in Pirin has been destroyed by the wildfires after July 25. There are still local outbreaks on the ground, said..
Amendments to Bulgaria’s Road Traffic Law, published in today's issue of the State Gazette, will come into force in one month. From 5 September,..
sunshine, cloud, rain and thunder
Mostly Cloudy
Partly Cloudy
Partly cloudy, chance of rain