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The building of the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry in downtown Sofia. Photo by BGNES
A total of 13 Bulgarian Ambassadors, all of whom former Communist State Security Agents, have returned to the country.
The envoys in Sarajevo, Athens, Bucharest, Tbilisi, Belgrade, Beijing, Stockholm, Vilnius, Berlin, Minsk, Skopje, as well as the Ambassador to the UN in New York and UNSECO in Paris will stay in Bulgaria until their successors are chosen. Until then, they will be officially on a "working trip".
Another 22 envoys are to be called back. The next group is expected to be recalled on June 1.
The scandal flared at the end of 2010, when the Bulgarian Files Commission exposed about 200 diplomats, 90 of whom still employed by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, as DS agents or collaborators. 35 are ambassadors and permanent representatives. In March another 75 employees of the Ministry were exposed for ties with the Communist Security Services.
Bulgarian Ambassadors to the UK, Italy, UN ( in Geneva), Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey, Russia, Norway, Japan, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Egypt, the Vatican, Slovakia, Albania, Armenia, and Venezuela are yet to be called back.
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