The historical past of a nation is a chronicle of defeats and victories, of struggles and achievements. That is significantly tru of countries just like the Bulgarian, present for a couple of thousand years. A jubilee just like the one you might be celebrating immediately, is a proof of the resistance and endurance of the human spirit, of its persistant aspiration in the direction of nationwide independence. Moreover, in our time such a jubilee underscores the function of peace as a mandatory prerequisite for a nation’s life and progress. The approaching, after World Conflict Two, of a constructive stage in Bulgaria’s nationwide deed, and the achievement of exceptional financial successes, wouldn’t be attainable with out peace and friendship with the opposite nations. These days, nations can greatest notice their aspirations for a greater and happier future solely on the idea of mutual cooperation.
Because it entered the United Nations 26 years in the past, Bulgaria has actively participated in our collective efforts for strengthening world peace and safety, for justice and progress. I’m pleased, on this historic event, to formulate to the Bulgarian folks greatest needs for welfare and prosperity.
Kurt Waldheim, Secretary Basic of the United Nations Organisation
The 13th centennial of the Bulgarian State is a historic date. By underscoring its significance, the Basic Convention of UNESCO at its XXI session held final 12 months in Belgrade, adopted unanimously a decision expressing the reassurance that the celebration of this anniversary would contribute to a greater understanding amongst nations on the earth, and known as upon the member States to participate in it.
To the Basic Secretary of UNESCO as a United Nations group that’s specialised in such vital fields as schooling, science and tradition the celebration of this jubilee is a contented event to pay tribute to the contribution of the Bulgarian State, as one in all Europe’s oldest States, to the world’s historic and cultural improvement.
The centre of the Balkan Peninsula
Located proper within the centre of the Balkan Peninsula, and heir of excessive civilizations which had endowed it with a freedom loving, peaceloving spirit, the Bulgarian nation has resisted the ups and downs of historical past and the vicissitudes of centuriesold international domination, and due to the daring and inventive genius of its folks it has preserved its dignity, nationwide and cultural originality and centuriesold traditions.
Bulgaria, which was thought-about on the finish of World Conflict Two as an completely agrarian State, and which ranked among the many poorest in Europe, has marked an distinctive progress within the financial, social and cultural fields, because of the novel reconstruction of the nation, and of the selfless efforts of all of its folks.
Ottoman in Bulgaria 