The bureau of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will convene for its first meeting within the 47th session at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on Sunday, under Bulgaria’s chairmanship led by ...

For the first time, Bulgaria will host the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2025, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Culture. This decision was made early this morning during the ...

The Friendship Envoy Award was presented to six individuals, including Thomas Rabe of Germany, chairman of the John Rabe ...

A member of Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Education and Science (1977-1978) he later became Adviser to the Prime Minister on ... twice a Member of Parliament, and ...

Irina Bokova is the first woman and the first representative of Eastern Europe to ever chair UNESCO. Your election for Director-General of UNESCO is a huge success for Bulgaria.

SOFIA - The 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, which is scheduled to be held from 6 to 16 July 2025 in Bulgaria, may fail due to the inaction of the authorities, MPs have warned.

Bulgaria is known for its rich cultural heritage with unique Thracian, Roman and medieval works of art and architecture. Its capital, Sofia, was recently picked to host next year’s UNESCO World ...

On 1 December 2014, the Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Irina Bokova, paid a visit to the Republic of Bulgaria. At a special ceremony in the Regional centre for the Safeguarding of the intangible ...

Bulgaria has confirmed that it is backing Irina Bokova for the post of UN Secretary General, ending months of speculation over who it wanted to replace Ban Ki-moon in 2017.

Environmentalists in Bulgaria scored a victory Wednesday in a long-running court battle to prevent enlargement of a ski resort in the Pirin mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage site.