Suzanne
03-03-06, 02:48 PM
The official celebrations on the occasion of Bulgaria’s national day, March 3 and the 128th anniversary since this country’s liberation from nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule have begun with a ceremony of hoisting the national flag at the monument to the Unknown Warrior in downtown Sofia. President Georgi Parvanov laid a wreath of flowers at the monument and together with other officials paid homage to the memory of the heroes, who had sacrificed their lives for this country’s freedom by a minute of silence. Solemn rituals and celebratory events are being held across the country. PM Sergey Stanishev is taking part in the celebrations on the historic Mount Shipka in the Balkan range.
He attended a prayer service for the prosperity and well-being of the Bulgarian people officiated by Metropolitan Galaction of Stara Zagora at the Nativity Memorial Church. A long process of building of the Bulgarian state began after March 3 and the San Stefano peace treaty, Stanishev said. To a certain extent Bulgaria finds itself in a similar situation at present in front of the entrance to the European Union and this country should be modernized in all spheres, he stressed. The PM said he was sure this would happen and the Bulgarians would live with the self-confidence of a worthy people in the European Union.
National Assembly Chairman Georgi Pirinski is visiting Smolyan in Southern Bulgaria.
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He attended a prayer service for the prosperity and well-being of the Bulgarian people officiated by Metropolitan Galaction of Stara Zagora at the Nativity Memorial Church. A long process of building of the Bulgarian state began after March 3 and the San Stefano peace treaty, Stanishev said. To a certain extent Bulgaria finds itself in a similar situation at present in front of the entrance to the European Union and this country should be modernized in all spheres, he stressed. The PM said he was sure this would happen and the Bulgarians would live with the self-confidence of a worthy people in the European Union.
National Assembly Chairman Georgi Pirinski is visiting Smolyan in Southern Bulgaria.
http://www.bnr.bg/News (http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/News/0303++B4.htm)