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PM Kiril Petkov: We will summon our ambassador in Moscow back to Bulgaria

published on 3/24/22 1:16 PM | updated on 3/24/22 7:13 PM

Russian ambasador to Sofia Eleonora Mitrofanova.

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Bulgaria’s ambassador to Moscow will be summoned back to Sofia for consultations. In diplomatic language, this means that the other side should do the same, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said in Brussels before the European Council meeting kicked off.

This came as a reaction to a position by the Russian embassy in Sofia that it was unacceptable for officials, regardless of their rank, to criticise an ambassador.

The prime minister's criticism came after a media appearance by Moscow's ambassador in Sofia Eleonora Mitrofanova, in which she used derogatory language towards Bulgarians and the Bulgarian government. Kiril Petkov announced then that a diplomatic response would follow.

No Bulgarian citizen would take it lightly when a foreign diplomat insults them and their government, Petkov said, adding that the cabinet strongly condemns the behaviour of ambassador Mitrofanova.

"Summoning Bulgaria's ambassador in Moscow back to Bulgaria for consultations is a logical move", said President Rumen Radev, commenting on the statement of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov who announced that Sofia would summon its ambassador in Moscow for consultations. Regarding the statement of the Russian ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova to the Russian media, Radev said: "No ambassador has the right to appropriate the right to speak on behalf of the Bulgarian people."

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