NEWSTREK
Amrapaali / January 2015
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BULGARIA’S
CULTURE
STRENGTH
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Amrapaali Report
Photo source: Vaddge site
During the official sum up of a project,
Filip Gunev, the Deputy Minister of
Interior of Bulgaria announced that,
“Bulgaria has the third – largest cultural
heritage in Europe.” The Project initiated
aims at raising the administrative
capacity of the workers of the Ministry of
Interiors upon prevention and solving of
crimes connected with the cultural
heritage of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Mr. Filip Gunev further stated that, “At
the beginning of last year in his capacity
of deputy interior minister current
Minister of Interior Veselin Vuchkov and
Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov
opened this project. The project that has
ended has achieved several important
things – besides raising the capacity, the
experience exchange with our Italian
colleagues, the database at the Ministry
of Interior was expanded to include stolen
artifacts, to aid our work in solving
crimes connected with our cultural
heritage.”
The Republic of Bulgaria, is situated in
southeastern
Europe,
bordered
by
Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece,
Turkey and Black Sea. With a territory of
110,994 square kilometres, Bulgaria is
Europe's 16th-largest country.
An initial process has been adopted with
establishing the cultural heritage registry
and on this Mr. Gunev mentioned that,
“We, as a country, should set the goal of
meeting deadlines and accomplishing
tasks and seek European resources –
there are such. In the frames of the next
few years we should be able to develop
such a registry to aid our work as this is
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