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"President defends DS spy ambassadors,” announces Dnevnik. Bulgarian President Guéorgui Parvanov has declared that he will oppose Prime Minister Boïko Borissov’s plan to recall 40 high ranking diplomats who have been identified as former collaborators of the Darzhavna Sigurnost communist secret police. The Sofia daily explains that on 14 December the parliamentary committee in charge of opening the secret police archives published a report on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, indicating that close to 40% of staff had ties to the DS. The implicated diplomats include ambassadors, first secretaries and consuls still working for the ministry in 13 EU countries, at the UN, the Vatican and also in Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo. President Parvanov, who is himself a former communist, described the diplomats as “seasoned professionals” and patriots who served their country.
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