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Ilija Pavlov - president of MG Corporation, gave a briefing on the eve of his birthday together with his family in grandhotel 'Varna'. Our three children are the gift for Ilija, they are our pride and joy, Mrs Darina Pavlova said. On the photo: the proud father with his daughters Paula and Ventsislava. Photo Petko Momchilov

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Major General Dimiter Dimitrov (left on photo) of 3rd Army Corps headquartered in Sliven welcomes a Greek military delegation from Xanthi 4th Army Corps headed by Lieutenant General Bourdaniotis (right). Pressphoto BTA: Yurii Igoshin

 
MINISTER GRUEVSKI HANDED 28 DENATIONALIZATION CERTIFICATES IN KAVADARCI.
 
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Finance Minister Nikola Gruevski handed over property denationalization certificates to 28 families from Kavadarci, Negotino and Gevgelija. The ceremony took place Wednesday in Kavadarci.
 
So far, 212 request for property denationalization have been submitted to the Denationalization Committee, based in Kavadarci, and also in charge of the municipalities Negotino and Gevgelija. 128 or 61% of them are solved.
 
"Since the country's independence, many owners, whose property was taken way 50 years ago, have hoped that the injustice will be corrected. However, it did not happen as the Law on Denationalization, adopted in 1997, was annulled by the Constitutional Court. By taking the power, VMRO-DPMNE has fulfilled its promise," Gruevski said.
 
He said that 76% of 4,500 denationalization requests were solved, stressing that the denationalization process would be completed before 2006.
 
SESSION OF THE STATE ELECTION COMMISSION.
 
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The State Election Commission adopted on Wednesday the Code for determining the rules and the procedure for monitoring of the elections and the electoral procedure of domestic and foreign monitors, as well as the guidelines for application of the articles 74, 76 paragraph 3 and 4, and Article 77 paragraph 3 and 4 from the Law for election of members of the Macedonian parliament.
 
As said at the SEC press conference, the goal of the Code is to determine the rules for monitoring of the elections and of the election procedure, as well as the procedure for the monitoring missions of the domestic and foreign monitors, all in function to enhance the integrity and the transparency of the election process.
 
The manual for application of the Article 74 from the Law for election of MPs reads that the police is obliged by the law to remove all unauthorized persons from the pulling stations after the completion of the voting.
 
It also reads that after the closing of the pulling station the media representatives who were inside will not be removed, but they will be obliged to leave after the summing of the results from the voting is over.
 
The manual for the Article 76 paragraph 3 from the Law which refers to the security of the pulling stations, reads that "the police alone will assess the manner and the number of its members from the uniformed composition," who will be in charge to secure the area. The police must not enter in the pulling station if uninvited.
 
The third manual which refers to the application of the Article 76 paragraph 4 and article 77 paragraph 3 and 4 from the Law reads that the election board can ask for assistance from the police for establishing order in the pulling station.
 
Judge Dane Iliev said that in his opinion this guideline should be supplemented and thus to regulate the exceptional cases, but the other SEC members disagreed.
 
SEC president Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska said that this guiodeline would be submitted to the election boards and to the Ministry of Interior, as part of the training that was launched in cooperation with OSCE.
 
At the session, the SEC members adopted the changes to the financial plan for its work, because only 110 million denars were transferred so far from the budget on the account of the Commission. Lazarova-Trajkovska pointed out that these funds would be increased thanks to the donation of 266,000 from the European Agency for Reconstruction, which will be realized through the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES).
 
Lazarova-Trajkovska said that until the beginning of the SEC session no complaints were filed by the submitter of the rejected list of candidates in the fifth election district.
 
She also reported that the lists of candidates in the fourth election district were confirmed and the lots drawing procedurewas completed.
 
The Democratic Party of Albanians submitted a complaint Wednesday to the State Election Commission (SEC) in regard with its rejected candidate list at the fifth election district.
 
SEC spokesman Zoran Tanevski said the complaint would be reviewed in the legally set term, i.e. 24 hours after its submission.
 
The District Election Commission rejected the DPA candidate list for the election district no. 5, because its submission took place ten minutes after the deadline.
 
PRESENTATION OF PROJECT "100 YEARS OF ILINDEN"
 
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The project "100 Years of Ilinden", which is to be realized next year regarding the 100th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising and the Krusevo Republic, was promoted Wednesday at the Ministry of Culture.
 
It is a multimedia project, which will enable to Macedonians throughout the world to watch the Holiday celebrations in Krusevo-Meckin Kamen, Skopje, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto and New Jersey by satellite link.
 
The central manifestation at the Meckin Kamen in Krusevo would be simultaneously watched in all five cities, project designer Den Doncev said.
 
Due to different time zones, the manifestation would be held from 15.30 to 17.30 hour.
 
Viewers in Macedonia would be also able to watch the celebrations in the Canadian and Australian cities, Doncev added.
 
"The project is of special national interest because our generation has the privilege to organize and take part in marking of the 100th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising. The project has been under preparation for three-four months and is extremely ambitious, demanding assistance from both Macedonia and the Diaspora, " Culture Minister Ganka Samoilovska-Cvetanova said.
 
The Macedonian Government and the Macedonian Radio-Television are the project organizers. Domestic and companies from the Diaspora are expected to grant financial support to the project.
 
Albanian Nationalism and Tourism in Macedonia.
 
Reality Macedonia
By Petar Nikolovski
 
"Hey Kosovo!
Hey Tetovo!
Hey Kichevo!
Hey Bitola, Ohrid and Struga!
The UÇK will bring you to Albania's embrace!"
 
echoed in the restaurant of Hotel Eurotel on the shores of Lake Ohrid, Macedonia's prime tourist resort. It was a big party of some 200 Albanians celebrating the circumcision of the newest male baby in the family. The regular tourists in the hotel had a 'memorable' night of extremely loud provocative music glorifying the doers of all the criminal and inhumane acts of last year's war in Macedonia. A naïve, inexperienced observer, may just say that it's not big of a deal - it's only music, after all. It could've well been that if this was a rare occurrence and not in the circumstances of the aftermath of last year's crisis in Macedonia. [Imagine "I Love Osama" songs sung in public over spring break in Daytona Beach, USA, for example.]

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Islamic ethnic Albanian boy adorned with dollar bills during his circumcision celebration (Matka, 5.8.02)
 
This occurrence of which I witnessed happened in July this summer. Just a couple of weeks before, Macedonian media reported a similar incident, again occurring on Lake Ohrid. It was on a regular boat tour from the City of Ohrid to St. Naum Monastery when half of the boat passengers included plainclothes Macedonian police officers attending a psychological rehabilitation program in Ohrid following last year's crisis in the country. The other half of the boat passengers happened to be Albanian high school students from the western-Macedonian town of Debar. Ethnic Albanian students almost provoked an incident with their loud, inflammatory singing of Albanian nationalistic songs, glorifying the NLA terrorists. Violence got avoided thanks to the stringent self-control of the Macedonian policemen on board.
 
After a weekend spend at a fantastic rock festival at the Ljubanishte auto camp on Lake Ohrid, where, unfortunately, but I must say - as usual, there were no young people from the Albanian population in Macedonia (although the call for the festival on Ohrid region's radio stations was also broadcasted in Albanian), I headed back for Skopje. After entering Gostivar, where on many houses owned by ethnic Macedonians signs "For Sale" were posted, we passed through the road-toll post at the entrance of the Gostivar - Tetovo highway. It was half-demolished, with a horrifying look as if a tornado has just past through it. I asked the driver - what happened here? "Few days ago, the local Albanians from the nearby villages bombed the road-toll post with mortars. It was pure luck no one got killed," the driver replied.
 
I guess this group of Albanians from Gostivar just got annoyed of paying the regular road-toll fee for using Macedonia's most modern highway. I wonder what the ethnic Macedonians of Eastern Macedonia would comment, having in mind the extremely poor, low quality road-network connecting their towns and villages.
 
Another incident widely covered by media happened on the same highway (Tetovo - Gostivar), in the very same week. Several members of the 'disbanded' and 'disarmed' NLA stopped and robbed a Turkish inter-city bus liner. The Albanian terrorists at first were shooting at the bus, and when they managed to stop it, they've beat up and rob the driver, a Turkish national. The same has happened to many other vehicles that choosed to use the Tetovo - Gostivar highway.
 
When talking about this part of Macedonia I cannot avoid not mentioning an another occurrence from 5-6 years ago. It is about the Popova Shapka skiing center near Tetovo. That year, the Electric-power Company of Macedonia (ESM) sponsored the full rehabilitation of the gondola - skiing elevator connecting down-town Tetovo with the skiing slopes of Popova Shapka on Mount Shara. For more than a decade the Tetovo skiing elevator was out of order. The joy of the thousands of skiers after having the skiing elevator reopened was endless. They could again go to the finest skiing slopes in Popova Shapka by the shortest and most beautiful route. But their joy was very short. At first instance, from the very first week of the reopening of the Tetovo-Popova Shapka skiing elevator, the local Albanians from the nearby villages started stoning the elevator cabins full with skiers headed for the slopes on daily basis. The Albanian villagers finally got satisfied couple of months afterwards: they've cut the elevator cable, and no skiers have been able to use this skiing connection ever since. A million-dollar investment got destroyed. It is interesting that the majority of Popova Shapka skiers used to be ethnic Macedonians, but the General Manager of the Skiing Center, the biggest in Macedonia, was, and still is an ethnic Albanian.
 
In an another region, in Kumanovo I just read and got reminded of an another type of an incident, occurring for decades. The almost regular, brief information in Macedonian media couple of weeks ago stated that "the Thessaloniki - Belgrade international train yet again got stoned by local Albanians from a village near Kumanovo. Several windows on the train got broken, luckily no-one got injured." Any comments to this would be irrelevant.[See also: stoning of public busses in Skopje, interpreted as a 'civil disobedience' to the state]
 
A week ago, friend of mine, a passionate mountaineer and hiker, aguishly informed me about his latest climbing expedition to the Solunska Glava peak (east of the town of Veles, which is app. 30km south of Skopje). The sad news were that almost all of the frescos in the numerous medieval cave-churches in that mountainous region got destroyed, overpainted and sprayed by the local Albanian inhabitants. The villages of that region, in the 1950-60s got completely depopulated after its original ethnic Macedonian inhabitants left for the cities and abroad. In the late 1980s and early 1990s all those villages got inhabited by ethnic Albanian immigrants from Kosovo and Muslim [Boshnjak] settlers from the Sandjak region in Serbia, which all received Macedonian citizenships. Again, no comment to this one.
 
For the past decade, even long before last year's crisis in Macedonia, all the many international NGOs operating in Macedonia were conducting many campaigns emphasizing a message that all of Macedonia's inhabitants, but primarily the Macedonians and the Albanians must continue living closely together in tolerance, as this is the only way for Macedonia's stability and prosperity. Almost always the major emphasis of all these campaigns was to address the ethnic Macedonian population and not the Albanians. The common perception resulting was that it is always the ethnic Macedonian population only that has to be "enlightened" in the spirit of tolerance and love towards their compatriots of ethnic Albanian origin.
 
The foregoing experiences provide just a small sample of the general situation. Even though some officials of the International Community would resort to negative labeling and name-calling whenever contradictory information to the image of the 'official victim' ethnic community is presented, the expatriates living in the country would more often than not corroborate on the sentiment of this article, especially in private, off the record. I encourage the reader to engage his or her senses and reason, and obtain direct information.

BULGARIA - HEROIN HAUL.
 
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230 g Heroin Seized at Bulgarian-Turkish Border.
 
Kapitan Andreevo, Southeastern Bulgaria, Augut 7 (BTA) - Customs inspectors found 230 g of heroin hidden inside the front door of a Bulgarian-registered car entering Bulgaria from Turkey through the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, the National Customs Agency told BTA on Wednesday.
 
The field test identified the light brown powder, packed in a nylon bag, as heroin. The two Bulgarian women, travelling by the car, have been issued written statements on customs violation.
 
This is the third drug haul at Kapitan Andreevo, after a record 229.5 kg of heroin were seized there on July 10 and 108.860 kg of marijuana were intercepted two days later.
 
The latest case brings to 410.565 kg the Bulgarian Customs' total heroin seizures since the beginning of 2002.
 
BULGARIA - LEBANON - INVESTMENTS.
 
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Bulgaria Expects Lebanese Greenfield Investments.
 
Beirut, August 7 (BTA) - Representatives of Lebanon's big business and Bulgarian Deputy Economy Minister Milen Keremedchiev discussed a project to build an aircraft repair plant in Bulgaria. Participating in the discussion were chiefs of major companies, long-standing partners of the US in the building and repair of Boeing and Airbus planes, the Ministry of Economy said.
 
The Lebanese companies are planning to invest in the construction of an enterprise for repair of aircraft in Europe. The details will be discussed during a visit that the Lebanese businessmen will pay to Bulgaria next week.
 
Bulgaria is also interested in a Lebanese companies' project for building of a domestic waste recycling facility near Sofia.
 
Bank of Beirut is planning to open a branch in Sofia, Keremedchiev said, quoted in the press release. The bank will be assisting investment projects implemented by Middle East businessmen in Bulgaria and the region.
 
On Wednesday Keremedchiev left for Jordan together with the official Bulgarian delegation led by Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In Amman, the Deputy Economy Minister will sign an Agreement on Reciprocal Protection and Encouragement of Investments.
 
BULGARIA - JORDAN - P.M. VISIT.
 
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Jordan Rolls Out Red Carpet for Bulgarian PM.
 
Amman, August 7 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha began a two-day official visit to Jordan Wednesday noon, the Council of Ministers Information Directorate said. A lavish welcoming ceremony in the British tradition was staged for the guest at the King Abdullah Air Base in Marka near Amman.
 
Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Ragheb and ministers of his Cabinet welcomed the Bulgarian delegation. The two PMs had a one-to-one session at the airfield. Their formal talks are due to take place later in the day.
 
According to the updated schedule of the visit, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's first formal meeting was with Prince El Hassan, brother of Jordan's late King Hussein, an old friend of the Bulgarian Prime Minister.
 
Also on Wednesday, the two government delegations will confer, and an Agreement on Reciprocal Protection and Promotion of Investments is to be signed during that meeting.
 
At his Bait al-Barka Palace, King Abdullah II will host a dinner in honour of the Bulgarian Prime Minister. Jordan's Transport Minister Nader Dhahabi will entertain the Bulgarian government delegation at a dinner.
 
Eearly Wednesday morning, before leaving Lebanon, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha met with the media and gave exclusive interviews to the "Daily Star," one of the most authoritative English-language newspapers in the Arab World, and to the Future and NTV television stations.
 
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Bulgaria and Jordan established diplomatic relations on April 3, 1968. Until 1989, bilateral relations were largely limited to trade and business. Activation of political contacts began after 1989, including an exchange of high-level visits.
 
Bulgaria has been trading with Jordan since 1960, as a rule running a trade surplus with the Hashemite Kingdom. Bilateral trade peaked at 40 million US dollars in 1992. Since then, the annual level has been between 15 and 20 million dollars. In 2000, the two countries traded goods worth 16,055,000 dollars, of which Bulgarian exports to Jordan accounted for 12,366,000 dollars and imports from Jordan to Bulgaria for 3,680,000 dollars.
 
Bulgaria's exports to Jordan consist mainly of fertilizers, chemicals, ferrous metal manufactures, live animals and meat. Mechanical and electrical engineering output, pharmaceutical products and woodworking industry products are also exported.
 
Bulgaria has shared in the implementation of various projects in Jordan:
construction of a high-voltage power transmission line, prospecting for minerals and water.
 
The two countries have concluded an Agreement on Cultural Cooperation and an Agreement on Recognition of the Equivalence of Diplomas and Certificates of Education.
 
With the support of Bulgaria's Chief Mufti's Office, 15 Bulgarian students are attending higher educational establishments in Jordan.
 
More than 1,000 Jordanian students and post-graduate studies have graduated in Bulgaria. Currently, 31 Jordanian students are attending Bulgarian universities, mostly in engineering and medicine.
 
Approximately 1,000 Bulgarian expatriates live in Jordan: some 300 Bulgarian women married to Jordanians, their children, and a small number of Jordanians holding Bulgarian citizenship.
 
Bulgarian prime minister discusses Mideast crisis in Jordan.
 
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AMMAN, Jordan - The Bulgarian prime minister on Wednesday met with his Jordanian counterpart over the Mideast crisis and bilateral relations, the official Petra news agency reported.
 
Simon Saxcoburggotski and Ali Abul-Ragheb stressed the necessity to end the cycle of violence threatening the region, Petra said. The two men said the Israeli occupation of Palestinian towns and villages jeopardized diplomatic efforts to push the peace process forward.
 
Arriving from Lebanon, Saxcoburggotski was accompanied by an economic delegation in talks to increase the volume of trade between the two countries.
 
The two sides signed a bilateral agreement to promote and protect each other's investments.
 
According to Petra, during the last ten years, the volume of trade between Jordan and Bulgaria had varied but reached its peak in 1992 with dlrs 44 million.
 
Jordan imports from Bulgaria livestock, equipment, machinery, chemical and nitrogenous fertilizers, food products and iron. Bulgaria imports phosphate, salt, medical equipment, spare automobile parts and refrigerators.
 
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Letters and Parcels to Be X-Rayed.
 
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Victoria Serafimova
 
The private couriers obliged to let the IM search the parcels.
 
All letters and parcels will be scanned. The mandatory checkups will be made by Interior Ministry employees. These are the amendments to the Post Services Act, enforced yesterday. All private couriers and state posts are obliged to ensure conditions for police control. They have to install at their own expense the necessary equipment and software for the checkups. The mobile operators and the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company (BTC) were also obliged to assist the IM and install at their expense the necessary appliances.
 
The amendments to the two laws were made in connection with measures against terrorism.
 
ECONOMY-FORECASTS.
 
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Bulgaria's Pre-accession Economic Programme (2002-2005) Envisages 4% Inflation, 15% Unemployment.
 
Sofia, August 7 (BTA) - The Bulgarian pre-accession economic programme (2002-2005), presented on Wednesday, envisages inflation of less than 4 per cent and unemployment under 15 per cent in 2005. The inflation expected for 2002 is 8 per cent, and the level of unemployment 20 per cent.
 
The programme was drafted by the Agency for Economic Analyses and Projections (AEAP) with the Ministry of Finance on insistence by the European Commission (EC). It forecasts the pace of development with respect to the major macroeconomic indexes over the next three years based on economic data reported in the period from mid-2001 to mid-2002.
 
The value of the main economic parameters has been determined on the basis of an economic growth of 4 per cent in 2002 to 5.2 per cent in 2005, AEAP Executive Director Tsvetan Manchev said.
 
According to the programme, employment, which is minus 1.3 this year, is expected to reach 3 per cent in 2005, which means that 3,200,000 out of 4,852,000 population in active age will be employed in the economy. Incomes will grow by an average of 3.5 per cent a year.
 
The pre-accession programme envisages an increase in direct foreign investment, reaching nearly 1,300 million euros a year at the end of the period. The foreign trade deficit is expected to shrink to minus 5.2 per cent. In 2002, it will probably be about minus 6 per cent.
 
The Bulgarian pre-accession programme will be submitted to the EC by August 15, Manchev said. It is part of the EC mechanisms for monitoring the economic development of the countries applying for European Union (EU) membership. The programme of each candidate defines the goals and priorities and the instruments for implementing the country's economic policy.
 
The major priorities of Bulgaria's pre-accession programme include the achievement of balanced sustainable economic growth, continuation of the income increase policy, and completion of structural reforms.
 
The most important instruments are a flexible fiscal policy, continuation of the privatization process strengthening and decentralization of the state administration, and active government policy regarding the labour market.
 
PRESIDENT - BANKS ACT - VETO.
 
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President Purvanov Challenges Legislative Provision on International Accounting Standards.
 
Sofia, August 7 (BTA) - President Georgi Purvanov is returning for further consideration in Parliament the Act Amending and Supplementing the Banking Act which passed on July 26, the President's Press Secretariat said August 7.
 
Purvanov challenges a clause which introduces a new paragraph in the Transitional and Final Provisions of the Accountancy Act.
 
Under the amendment approved by Parliament, in case of incompatibility between the Accountancy Act and the International Accounting Standards, the Cabinet-approved International Accounting Standards are to be applied.
 
According to the President, this provision contravenes the Constitution because the Council of Ministers cannot enact legally binding instruments or amend laws approved by Parliament.
 
According to an express requirement enshrined in the relevant constitutional clause, Council of Ministers documents and instruments are approved on the basis and in compliance with legislation approved by Parliament. Therefore, governmental instruments have the effect of bylaws and the regulations enforced by them are subsidiary to legislative regulations, the President writes in his reasoning for the veto.
 
The instrument by which the Council of Ministers approves international accounting standards will inevitably be of sublegislative nature and its legal effect will be lesser than the legal effect of the Accountancy Act, Purvanov says.
 
The challenged provision suggests that the application of a sublegislative instrument of the Council of Ministers should take precedence over the application of legislative standards, the president further says. The International Accounting Standards approved by a Government instrument can by no means have the effect of international agreements ratified by a Parliament law. Under the Bulgarian Constitution, only those international agreements which have been ratified in accordance with constitutional requirements can form part of domestic legislation. The provisions in such international agreements take precedence over those domestic legislative provisions which are incompatible with them, Purvanov says.
 
A coherent legal system is a necessary prerequisite for the promotion of the rule of law, he says. Every regulatory instrument has its own place within the larger system. The system guarantees the integrity of the entire collected body of regulations and makes it possible to settle contradictions between regulatory instruments, he says.
 
The Press Centre of the National Assembly told BTA that the legislators' summer recess will not be interrupted in order to consider the President's veto.
 
Under the Rules of Parliamentary Procedure, a vetoed law is to be included on the parliamentary agenda within 15 days after receipt of the President's decree.
 
Periods of parliamentary recess are excluded from such timeframes, the Press Centre said.
 
This is the second law due for consideration in the first week after the current recess. The first one is the Environmental Protection Act vetoed by the President earlier in the week, the Press Centre said.
 
Budget and Finance Committee Chairman Ivan Iskrov said he will recommend to Parliament to approve the vetoed Banking Act provision without any changes.
 
This is Purvanov's fourth veto over a piece of legislation so far, Iskrov said. If the President continues to impose vetoes so frequently, the effect of his moves will be minimized, Iskrov said.
 
Economists in Bulgaria have an interest in the enforcement of the International Accounting Standards. There should be no instruments incompatible with these Standards because it would be difficult to adopt the Standards, Iskrov said.
 
The Accountancy Act will remain in effect until 2005; the International Accounting Standards will begin to be applied with respect to certain juristic persons in 2003, so there should be no contradictions, he said.
 
No one in the Budget and Finance Committee or in the debating chamber of Parliament has opposed the provision challenged by the President, Iskrov said.
 
The competent bodies are to judge whether the provision is unconstitutional. The Budget Committee wishes to make the economy more transparent and to ensure better application of the International Accounting Standards in Bulgaria, Iskrov said.

My Dream Is to See Bulgaria More Beautiful.
 
INTERVIEW Standartnews: Ilija Pavlov

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Rosalina Dimitrova

We'll invest in energy sector, tourism and infrastructure projects, said on his birthday Ilija Pavlov, president of MG corporation.

- Mr. Pavlov, how would you describe the investment policy of MG?

- I can't say we have a broad scope of activity. Our major fields are energy sector, infrastructure and mineral resources. We are investing in the whole region and own the biggest mines of Bulgaria - lead and zinc as well as coal. We put a lot of effort into the development of alternative energy sources, especially in Gorubso-Zlatograd. Our second group of companies are dealing in food processing and consumer goods. This is our traditional major. The third are related to tourism. In this sector we have concentrated about a billion and a half of private capitals in Bulgaria, 60 percent of them are BG investments.

- What are the barriers before big business in this country?

- The state administration has created liberal atmosphere that allows individual freedom. It was different under Kostov's rule, which I would qualify as neo-dictatorship.

- Do you have a dream that hasn't come true?

- They are more than those that have. One of my dreams is to see Bulgaria more beautiful.

(Abridged)

Our Three Children Are Gift for Iliya.
 
INTERVIEW Standartnews: Darina Pavlova

Darina Pavlova

Iliya Pavlov's wife

- Mrs Pavlova, what award did your little daughter Paula win?

- She won the award of the International Association for Models and Talents in New York. She is 11-year-old. After the contest she received offers from 11 agencies, 7 from Hollywood and 4 from New York. They want to be her managers. But the family board hasn't taken the final decision yet.

- What is the occupation of your elder daughter Ventzeslava?

- She studies finance and management in 'George Washington'. She completed her first year with straight A.

- And what about your son Iliya Kaloyan?

- He studies in a school for gifted children. He dreams of various things - wants to be a scientist, astronaut, and a king. He plays European football, too.

- What surprise have you prepared for your husband's birthday?

- The surprise is the program that I'm preparing for the party. I rely on young people, like director Stelyan Ivanov, singers Maria Ilieva, 'Charisma', Paula Pavlova, Vassil Petrov. And another big present are our three wonderful children.

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