Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Stratos Efthymiou, the First Counsellor of the Embassy, has been appointed as the new spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to an announcement made on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Friday received Venezuelan FM Yvan Gil Pinto, who is on an official visit to Serbia.

At a joint press conference after the meeting, Dacic announced Serbia would open an embassy in Venezuela to facilitate bilateral cooperation.

BELGRADE - Serbia plans to request a UN Security Council session to warn the international community of the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic announced on Friday, adding that, in case a session is held, Serbian President Vucic would attend it.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is coming to Bulgaria on Thursday, several Bulgarian publications reported last night. However, the information was never confirmed by any institution. Only the Council of Ministers sent a message to the media that they could not confirm Zelensky's visit, but they did not deny it.

"The situation in Russia is dynamic, the situation is scarce. We need to know the real reasons for what is happening - whether Prigozhin's goal is the overthrow of Putin, or his old quarrels with the Ministry of Defense and the struggle for supremacy at the front." President Rumen Radev said this to the media today before the start of the Wachau Forum in Austria.

At a ceremony this morning, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariya Gabriel accepted the position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Acting Foreign Minister Ivan Kondov.

"All together we must defend the place and role of our country in the EU and in the world. Let's turn challenges into opportunities," said Gabriel during the ceremony.

It has been established that an adviser to a Bulgarian Prime Minister coordinated the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a Macedonian citizen during the negotiation process of the Republic of North Macedonia with the EU.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic called on representatives of the international community on Monday to take fully seriously Pristina's unilateral acts and provocations and to protect Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

"Anyone who has the ambition to make any deep changes in the services must be fully aware that these services do not belong to the president, they belong to Bulgaria and are under the direct operational leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - in the person of the Prime Minister, not of the president.

The caretaker government is faced with and will have to manage a sensitive regional and international environment which includes, among others, the permanently difficult Greek-Turkish puzzle and a critical phase of the war in Ukraine.