- SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgaria has recalled 13 of its ambassadors pending dismissal for having once served as secret service agents for the nation’s former communist governments.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Vessela Tcherneva confirmed Tuesday that the ambassadors have returned to Bulgaria.
The Novinite.com news agency first reported that the ambassadors to Bosnia, Greece, Romania, Georgia, Serbia, China, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus and Macedonia, the United Nations and UNSECO were recalled to be replaced.
In December, a panel investigating Bulgaria’s communist-era police files published the names of 192 diplomats who had worked for the previous secret services, and parliament voted to ask Bulgaria’s president to remove 33 of them now serving as ambassadors.
