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The newly elected 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, is a good friend of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria (2012-2017) Rosen Plevneliev, and the two have met twice, learned “24 hours”. During these few hours that they spent together, not only human relationships of sympathy and respect emerged, but also real benefits for our country.
Joe Biden was the vice president of Barack Obama, with whom President Plevneliev had 11 meetings.
His first with Biden is over 2 hours. The venue is a huge ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, dated April 30, 2013. In the 300 Park Avenue building, which has been the city’s official emblem since 1993, Biden and Plevneliev have been invited as keynote speakers at the 100th anniversary of the ADL Blasphemy League – the world’s most powerful organization fighting hate speech, civil rights and religious freedoms, anti-Semitism and segregation.
The gala dinner was attended by the elite of the United States, and more. There are more than 1,000 leaders: the Jewish community in the United States, congressmen, civil society activists fighting for human rights around the world, religious leaders around the world.
As keynote speakers, Biden and Plevneliev meet at table number 1. The two speak under the heading “Imagine a world without hate,” and the two speeches complement each other. After Plevneliev’s speech, Joe Biden told him: “Mr. President, I learned a lot about Bulgaria from your speech and I want to tell you that if other nations during WWII had the courage for the Bulgarians to oppose the machine to kill Hitler , the world would have been different. ”Plevneliev spoke about the humanism and courage of Bulgarians in the battle against the deportation of Bulgarian Jews. He says that 100 meters from his grandfather’s house in Gotse Delchev, where he grew up, there is a Orthodox church, a mosque and a synagogue. And also, that within a radius of 200 meters from the office of the presidency there are also all three, an Orthodox church, a synagogue, a mosque and a Catholic church extremely beautiful. In front of the elite President Plevneliev emphasizes that he is infinitely proud that his homeland is an example of tolerance for all other countries in the region. The same year the 70th anniversary is celebrated in Bulgaria river of rescue of Bulgarian Jews.
In his speech, the future owner of the White House emphasizes how excited that on the 50th anniversary of the organization that fights for the conscience of America and the world, which supports all and their rights, the historic speech was entrusted to President John F Kennedy. .
The two keynote speakers at the organization’s centennial love each other very much. And fate met them again on February 7, 2015, during the World Security Conference in Munich, the world’s most important format on security and defense.
There, Joe Biden was invited to speak with Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Plevneliev is the only Bulgarian head of state invited to the most prestigious sector of the forum: the presidential panel.
Joe Biden begins his memorable speech with the words: “Putin, leave Crimea and Ukraine!”
After talking, during which he placed his Bulgarian friend in the front row of the room, the two agreed to meet later that day. Biden remains to hear the speech of the Bulgarian president. This meeting in Munich is historic – then Poroshenko waved the passports of the so-called “green men” (Russian green passports).
At a friendly meeting between the two later in the day, which lasted 40 minutes, Joe Biden met Rosen Plevneliev and told her a joke. The future owner of the White House welcomed the Bulgarian delegation in the company of his own, kissed and hugged Plevneliev, smiled at him like a first friend and began with the words: “Mr. President, my good friend, I want to tell you a joke. “. by Joe Biden is as follows:
A man is sitting in his house, his house is by the river. The river begins to arrive. The police are coming to evacuate him. The man stutters: “No, no, no, I’ve lived here my whole life, I know, I’ll stay here.”
The level of the river rises more and more. The fire department is coming to get him out. The man continues to insist: “No, no, no, I’m staying here!”
The water is already flooding the house. The man runs to the ceiling. A helicopter comes, they throw a rope on it. But he refuses again! Then, logically, he drowns. When he went to heaven to Christ and said: “I have believed in you all my life, I have sworn in you all my life, and when you had to help me, you did not help me.”
To which God replied, “First I sent you to the police. Then the fire department. Finally, I sent the military to the roof by helicopter. What else can I do for you?
Thus, Biden symbolically showed Rosen Plevneliev that he perceived him as his great friend. Shorten the distance as much as possible. The two speak without any point of reference and without interpreters. And last but not least, with this joke, Joe Biden symbolically tells President Plevneliev that he is reaching out to Bulgaria and asking how he could help him.
President Plevneliev is not modest and draws up a long list in which the influential American politician can help the country. He wants things that are already a fact:
– gas interconnector with Greece
– raises the question of Burgas – Alexandroupolis even then
– wants American fuel for the Belene and Kozloduy nuclear power plants
– more defense cooperation
– US strategic investments in information and communication companies.
President Plevneliev knows exactly what he wants. He had already met with Bill Gates, the director of CISCO, and Henry Kissinger earlier that day.
“I was the head of state who reaffirmed with Secretary of State John Kerry Bulgaria’s strategic alliance with the United States, which was not easy at all, given the previous years of stagnation in which nothing had happened. I am infinitely pleased that Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s second and third administrations have further strengthened and deepened our strategic partnership, to an even higher level. When there is friendship, trust and informal relationship between equals, between friends, things happen in a completely different way, “concluded President Plevneliev.
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