{"id":35137,"date":"2017-09-18T07:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T07:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=35137"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:47:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:47:41","slug":"bulgarian-president-attends-irina-bokovas-event-amidst-azerbaijani-laundromat-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-president-attends-irina-bokovas-event-amidst-azerbaijani-laundromat-scandal.html","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian President Attends Irina Bokova\u2019s Event amidst \u201cAzerbaijani Laundromat\u201d Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is on a working visit to the United States to take part in the annual forum &#8220;Honoring the Heroes of the World Campaign Against Extremism and Intolerance&#8221; and make a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the mundane news reports lies the fact that President Radev is attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/global-hope-summit-convenes-international-community-to-fight-violent-extremism-and-intolerance-300515021.html\">the gala and ceremony<\/a> organized by <strong>Irina Bokova<\/strong>, Director General of UNESCO, and the newly established &#8220;Global Hope Coalition&#8221;, an international initiative dedicated to providing a global platform to bolster the civil society campaign to fight violent extremism and intolerance, preserve cultural heritage, and promote intercultural dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The event gathered over 450 participants in the New York Public Library, among them government and business leaders, cultural icons, philanthropists, and human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-unesco.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35096 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-unesco-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-unesco-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-unesco.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-350.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-35094 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-350-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-350-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/global-hope-350.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Radev, the event included Fuad Masum, President of Iraq; Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta, President of Mali; Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana; Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta; Jusuf Kalla, Vice-President of Indonesia; Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg; Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister; Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats, with whom Bivol talked, pointed out as outrageous reports that the \u201cfans of global hope\u201d and those of \u201cmainstream politics\u201d had to pay USD 350 to attend the event. In general, attendance of events organized and funded by UNESCO is always free, though strictly controlled through invitations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting Bokova now \u2013 an open suicide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear why the Office of the President did not consider it appropriate to promote more Radev\u2019s participation at the prestigious event under the patronage of Irina Bokova, or at least to mention her name in the press release.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings of former Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev with UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova have always been properly reported. At the same event a year ago, Plevneliev made the following statement: &#8220;Irina is a symbol of Bulgarian women and an example to all of us. We are all very proud to have joined the toughest battle for the highest post in the world, the UN Secretary-General.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for meetings between Rumen Radev and Irina Bokova, which have never been held behind closed doors &#8211; on the contrary, they have always been widely boasted by the media. Bokova received unreserved support from Radev as soon as he was elected. The new President stood firmly behind her candidacy for the post of UN Secretary-General. His comments after the government decided to withdraw Bokova\u2019s candidature are also well-documented and remembered: &#8220;The decision of the Cabinet \u201cBorisov\u201d (Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria \u2013 editor\u2019s note) to change the Bulgarian candidacy for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations is an open suicide of Bulgarian diplomacy on the world stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bokova, however, lost the battle for the United Nations, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-connection-husband-of-unesco-director-general-exposed-in-azerbaijani-laundromat.html\">scandal with money in a Swiss account received by her husband, Kalin Mitrev<\/a>, from companies linked to the Azeri regime, hit hard on her international reputation at the end of her UNESCO term, as the French newspaper <em>Liberation<\/em> notes. This might be a possible reason behind the current unusual discretion of the President.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is on a working visit to the United States to take part in the annual forum &#8220;Honoring the Heroes of the World Campaign Against Extremism and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_crdt_document":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","kia_subtitle":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[5543,7862,5806,7824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-en","category-b-files-bokova-en","category-leading-en","category-laundromat-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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