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Bulgarian government nominates Kristalina Georgieva to be UN Secretary-General

September 28, 2016September 29, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

The Bulgarian government is nominating its European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva for the post of United Nations Secretary-General, Prime Minister

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Bulgaria World 

Bokova sees ‘no serious reason’ to quit UN Secretary-General race

September 28, 2016September 29, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

The Bulgarian candidate to be the next UN Secretary-General, Irina Bokova, says that she sees “no serious reason” to withdraw

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Bulgaria World 

Guterres again leads in UN vote as Bulgarian Bokova drops even further

September 26, 2016September 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Portugal’s former prime minister and former head of the UN Commission for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, topped the UN Security Council

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Bulgaria 

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 Now podcast: The Trump grumps, Hillary hilarity and Bokova knockover

September 23, 2016September 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Rossen Plevneliev

The first television debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is just days away, on September 26. Coincidentally, that same

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Perspectives 

EU indecision on UN Secretary General choice plays to Russia’s advantage

September 20, 2016 Richard Gowan of the European Council on Foreign Relations Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

The race to replace Ban Ki-moon as United Nations Secretary-General in 2017 is an awful muddle, yet it may still

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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 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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