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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgarian President Plevneliev: ‘Time has come for woman from Eastern Europe to lead the UN’

September 23, 2016September 27, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva, Rossen Plevneliev

After eight male Secretaries-General the time has come for a capable and respectable woman from Eastern Europe to lead the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission begins registering presidential election candidates

September 19, 2016September 20, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission opened on September 19 the process of registering candidates for the country’s November 6 2016 presidential

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev: Battle for UN Secretary-General post ‘unpredictable’

September 19, 2016September 20, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s battle for the post of United Nations Secretary-General is extremely difficult and currently unpredictable, President Rossen Plevneliev said in

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Bulgaria 

Purvanov’s ABC party names Kalfin as presidential candidate

September 15, 2016September 19, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Georgi Purvanov

Georgi Purvanov’s socialist splinter ABC party, one of the two smallest parties in the Bulgarian National Assembly and formerly part

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Bulgaria World 

Orban: Hungary would gladly support Georgieva to be UN chief

September 14, 2016September 19, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Hungary, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Hungary would gladly support Bulgaria’s European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to be United Nations Secretary-General, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said

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Bulgaria 

Borissov in sideswipes over Bulgaria’s UN Secretary-General candidacy

September 13, 2016September 16, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that if Bulgaria’s candidate to be UN Secretary-General had been nominated by his GERB

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Bulgaria World 

PM Borissov: Bokova remains Bulgaria’s candidate UN Secretary-General

September 13, 2016September 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Irina Bokova remains Bulgaria’s candidate to be the next United Nations Secretary-General, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on September

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Bulgaria World 

Russia summons Bulgarian ambassador over UN Secretary-General candidacy

September 12, 2016September 14, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov summoned Bulgarian ambassador Boiko Kotsev for talks on September 12, with the two discussing “some

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Bulgaria World 

Clarity awaited in Bulgaria’s Bokova – Georgieva UN chief nomination drama

September 12, 2016September 14, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Two days after reports that Bulgaria’s European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva would emerge as a candidate to be the next United

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