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Rusi Ivanov. Photo of the president’s press office
By his decree, President Rumen Radev appointed Rusi Ivanov as his foreign policy secretary, announced the press office of the head of state.
Rusi Ivanov holds various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), where he began to work in 1979. He has worked in the directorates directing Bulgaria’s bilateral relations with European countries, European regional cooperation and coordinating issues related to relations. with the European Union.
Since 2001 he has been part of the negotiating team for the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union. After the signing of the Accession Treaty of our country to the EU from April 2004 to July 2007, he became the first representative of Bulgaria in the Committee of Deputy Permanent Representatives to the EU / Coreper-1 /. In the periods May 2012 – February 2014 and January 2019 – December 2020 he was Director General of European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Within his professional career, Rusi Ivanov held the position of Acting Head of the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Federal Republic of Germany in the period 2011-2012 and was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Kingdom of Denmark from 2014 to 2018.
He received his master’s degree from the Institute of International Relations in Potsdam-Babelsberg and studied at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia.
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