“I have given accurate information on what correspondence has come to us, what instructions we have sought from the Council of Ministers – everything is stamped,” the foreign speaker said in a statement to journalists in the National Assembly. “We are waiting for instructions from the prime minister on what to do from now on, an official letter has been sent to me,” Genchovska said. And he added – there is coordination, we talked to him, let written instructions come from him. The chairman of SANS Plamen Tonchev was urgently summoned to the council, who also gave explanations to the leaders of the main political forces.

After the council, Toshko Yordanov, chairman of the General Assembly of “There is such a people”, announced that SANS had given two lists, some of which came three days after the first. “There is no report on SANS, there is no decision of the Security Council, there are oral orders of Kiril Petkov,” he stressed. “We are discussing something completely different in the Council – the foreign ministry is proposing a reciprocal reduction of the diplomatic corps, but the Russians are more than us, but this is not espionage, this is another procedure and it is a month,” he decided, accusing the prime minister of lying. “Declaring 70 persona non grata and clearing them in 72 hours is not what they said externally,” as Yordanov said. personally to the Prime Minister.

The chairman of the PG of “Democratic Bulgaria” Hristo Ivanov commented that the chairman of the council of the National Assembly cannot deal with conducting an investigation. “These are extremely complex processes, administrative, political, which were currently presented in a certain way, according to this one. Today the whole picture is not clear, everything you will hear will be different interpretations “, Ivanov commented.

“There are two lists of people for whom SANS claims that there is a different degree of danger to national interests,” Ivanov said. “If SANS claims to have included in these lists people for whom there were not sufficient grounds, this raises the question of the responsibility of the chairman of SANS why he is on. But these are things that we cannot establish in the Presidential Council, “he commented.

Earlier, the chairmen of “Vazrazhdane” Kostadinov Kostadinov announced that the composition of the reports, which were presented to the Security Council under the Prime Minister, was actually discussed. “We have come to the conclusion from the party that the prime minister has used the structure of the current government for his personal political gain,” he said. The council for this reason from “Vazrazhdane” will prepare a signal to the prosecutor’s office, in which it will demand Kiril Petkov to be experienced.

Earlier yesterday, it became clear that Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova had submitted a note to the Foreign Ministry warning that if the decision of the Bulgarian government to expel the 70 employees of Russian foreign missions was not revoked by 12 noon on Friday, territory of Bulgaria, the Russian Embassy in Bulgaria will raise the issue of closing the mission in Sofia to Moscow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the information, specifying that during her visit she handed a verbal note, in which she ultimately requested the withdrawal of the notes for the declared non-grata employee of the Russian foreign missions by 12 o’clock on July 1, 2022.

Resigned Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska is waiting for instructions from Prime Minister Kiril Petkov on the note of Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova ….

Mitrofanova herself gave an interview to BNT. In it, she warned that Russia’s response would be very difficult, and that diplomatic relations with Bulgaria could be severed. “Moscow will take very drastic measures. This cannot go unnoticed, “she said. For his part, Kiril Petkov announced that a decision had been made to keep 43 Russian diplomats in Bulgaria, calling on the embassy to withdraw its note.

Due to the case, calls were heard to convene the National Security Advisory Council under the President. However, Rumen Radev himself passed the ball to the Council of Ministers, calling on Prime Minister Kiril Petkov to convene a meeting to assess the consequences of the escalation of the crisis in bilateral relations and decide on compliance with all legal procedures. “The responsibility for the decision lies entirely with the management of the resignation, which performs its functions in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria and the oath taken before the National Assembly when taking over the country until the actual transfer of power,” the head of state wrote on his Facebook account. .

Earlier in the day, Rumen Radev announced that the presidential institution had not received a report from SANS on the subject. “At the Security Council of the Council of Ministers on June 9, where a representative of the presidency was present, this topic did not appear on a previously announced agenda. It is moving during the meeting itself, but no decision has been made, “he said.

The decision to recall 70 Russian diplomats will be announced on June 28 by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. It later became clear that about half of them were technical assistants. A day later, Petkov said that three SANS reports and a decision of the country’s Security Council had been recalled.

After the announcement of this decision, the BSP announced that it was against it, and subsequently set the condition that Kiril Petkov should not be prime minister in a possible new cabinet with a mandate for “We continue the change”. The official presentation of the mandate will take place on Friday at 5 pm in the presidency.

Seventy Russian diplomats were expelled from Bulgaria three days ago. This requires a storm in the political life in our country. The Prime Minister Kiril Pe …