Bulgaria says not bound by Paris Club move on Iraq
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Bulgaria, one of Europe&#39;s poorest countries, will not heed a call by the Paris Club of creditor nations to forgive most of the $1.75 billion in debt it is owed by Iraq, its finance minister said on Monday.
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Politics: 31 December 2004, Friday. Bulgarian troops in Diwaniyah will meet the New Year together with their fellow-soldiers from the Polish-led multinational division in Iraq.
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Bulgaria wants a EU summit in December to give it a date to sign an accecssion treaty with the bloc and will ask Greece to back its bid, the foreign ministry said Monday.
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France and Belgium, two of the most vocal critics of the U.S. war in Iraq, would not agree Friday to a planned expansion of NATO's military training mission in Iraq, but officials were confident a deal could be reached within days.
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MUNICH, Germany Germany's foreign minister says he doesn't see any reason for NATO to take up a security role in Iraq.
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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, who holds the rotating chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, said Ukraine would be a central topic for an OSCE foreign ministerial meeting ...
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Plans to expand a Nato training mission in Iraq are delayed after France and Belgium voice last-minute doubts.
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Russia has not agreed to a German-US proposal that would forgive up to 80 percent of Iraq&#39;s foreign debt, according to German Finance Minister Hans Eichel.
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Politics: 26 October 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov leaves Tuesday on official visits to Slovenia and Croatia, the second leg of his trips to countries in Southeastern Europe.
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France will set no precondition for the international conference on Iraq scheduled on Nov. 22-23 in Egypt, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier declared Monday on French television news channel LCI.
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The agreement was reached in Brussels on Wednesday after days of negotiations on the size and scope of the mission. In particular, France had refused to agree to the expanded NATO role in Iraq
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Bulgaria will discuss pulling its 450 troops out of Iraq with U.S.-led coalition allies after elections scheduled for Jan.
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WASHINGTON France said Monday that it would take part in a proposed international conference on Iraq only if the agenda included a possible US troop withdrawal, thus complicating the planning for a meeting that has drawn mixed reactions.
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Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov has expressed his opposition to redeployment of his country's troops from Iraq's Karbala to Najaf, local media reported Saturday.
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. There has been no official request for consideration over a possible relocation of Bulgarian troops from Karbala to Najaf, Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov said on ...
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Bulgaria, which owes $9.3 billion in government foreign debt, has to collect some $2 billion of non-performing debts from Third World countries, an official said Thursday.
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Politics: 20 September 2004, Monday. The relocation of the Bulgarian unit from Karbala to the Qadisiyah province is not acceptable for the Bulgarian authorities.