Bulgaria

Apr 07, 2008 -- GRAF IGNATIEVO AIR BASE, Bulgaria — In an effort to increase theater security cooperation, U.S. and Bulgarian Airmen received familiarization briefings on F-15C and MiG-29 aircraft here on April 4th.

The NATO program is designed to familiarize military personnel from member nations with cross-servicing on different aircraft. Because F-15s are currently deployed to Bulgaria as part of Operation Noble Endeavor, it presented the maintainers from the two countries an opportunity to take part in the program.

USAF F-15 crew chief F-15 Eagle to group of Bulgarian air force crew chiefs.: Photo courtesy DoD    » read more »

15 August 2007 -- Greece, Bulgaria and Russia earlier this year agreed to spend over $1 billion to build a 230-kilometer oil pipeline from Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Burgas to Alexandroupolis on Greece's Mediterranean coast. VOA's Barry Wood reports from Alexandroupolis that when the pipeline is completed in 2011, fewer tankers will have to pass through the crowded Bosporus Straits next to Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul.    » read more »

17 July 2007 -- The death sentence of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus, HIV, has been commuted to life in prison. The Bulgarians' effort now is to get the nurses repatriated.

The ruling came after the families of the children each received one million dollars in compensation.

The families agreed to drop their demand for the execution of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor charged with having infected with HIV more 400 Libyan children at a hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi.    » read more »

11 July 2007 -- Libya's Supreme Court is expected to announce Wednesday whether five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician will be executed on charges of injecting more than 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus.

The medics were sentenced to death in 2004 and have appealed the decision. They deny the charges and say they were tortured into confessing.

International health experts say the children likely contracted HIV from poor sanitary conditions at a hospital in the city of Benghazi. A number of the children have already died.    » read more »

Project to Improve Some 450 km of Bulgaria’s Roads in Its First Years of

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2007 – The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today approved a Road Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project in the amount of EUR90 million for the Republic of Bulgaria. The project aims to assist the country reduce road transport costs by improving the condition and quality of its roads network during the first years of EU accession.    » read more »

June 7, 2007 -- Mr. John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement today in Sofia:    » read more »