Valentin Poryazov

The Foreign Ministry of Greece has informed us that the mandatory rapid antigen tests for all truck drivers at the "Kulata - Promahon" border checkpoint have been cancelled. As of today, testing will again be carried out only at random. reported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has dismissed two Deputy Ministers to send them on missions to Sweden and the Netherlands, the government has said.

Deputy Foreign Minister Valentin Poryazov will be Bulgaria's Ambassador to Sweden.

Rumen Aleksandrov, who holds the same office, is being appointed as the Ambassador to the Netherlands.

A Palestinian commission has arrived in the Bulgarian capital to investigate the death of Omar Zayed whose body was found in the yard of the Palestinian embassy in Sofia on Friday.

The Bulgarian foreign ministry has no information on Turkey having imposed bans on two key figures of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) from entering the country.

The blockade at the Kulata checkpoint located on the Bulgarian-Greek border was temporary lifted on Tuesday evening to allow for the passage of the vehicles that have piled up on both sides of the border over the past days.

The queue of trucks on the Bulgarian side of the border has cleared, with passage allowed for all types of vehicles.

Lieutenant General Mark Schissler, Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, is to arrive in Bulgaria Wednesday.

During his visit to Bulgaria, Schissler is to meet with the Chief of Defense, Vice-Admiral Rumen Nikolov, and with Deputy Defense Minister Dimitar Kyumurdzhiev and Deputy Foreign Minister Valentin Poryazov.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Monday appointed several deputy ministers under proposals made by the respective heads of ministries.

Katya Todorova, Valentin Poryazov and Rumen Alexandrov will carry on as deputy ministers of foreign affairs - posts to which they had been appointed in August by catetaker Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki.

Valentin Poryazov and Rumen Aleksandrov are to be deputies to interim Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, the Bulgarian government's press office has said.

Both of them are career diplomats, with a number of years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.