/View.information/ Declaration of the Administration Board of the Bulgarian Diplomatic Society (BDD)
– By persevering with to rigorously monitor personnel processes within the Bulgarian diplomatic service on the whole and the sending of Bulgarian ambassadors overseas particularly;
– By confirming the conclusions and suggestions contained in quite a few declarations, opinions, reviews and letters to the related establishments and publicized among the many Bulgarian public;
– Having familiarized himself with the 2 choices of the Council of Ministers, containing the names of the brand new official Bulgarian representatives overseas, proposed by the Ministry of International Affairs and agreed with the presidential establishment;
– Additionally noting some details about a “third tranche” of abroad appointments being ready, a few of which have been confirmed on the ministerial stage;
– Paying consideration once more to the provisions of the Structure of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Legislation on the Diplomatic Service, in addition to to Resolution No. 11/2011 of the Constitutional Court docket, regarding this matter;
– Emphasizing the basic assertion that: “The Republic of Bulgaria is a state ruled by the rule of regulation. It’s ruled in line with the Structure and the legal guidelines of the nation” (Article 4 (1) of the Structure);
– Being additionally guided by established worldwide diplomatic apply,
The Board of Administrators of BDD states:
1. The brand new ambassadorial appointments being ready, in no small half, present the extraordinarily disturbing image of the federal government’s continued violation or circumvention of the legal guidelines and rules regulating the Bulgarian Diplomatic Service, a apply that’s apparently tolerated by the presidential establishment as effectively. Their successive personnel choices don’t meet the ideas of growth of the skilled diplomatic service. They’re one other blow in opposition to the diplomatic guild with an especially demotivating impact.
2. The 2018-2019 precedents for sending heads of missions overseas are already being confirmed in apply. “Flying” from capital to capital, with out the obligatory two-year keep in Bulgaria, continues. The dearth of expertise and experience of many heads of missions overseas makes these missions ineffective. No effort is made to cut back the bloated so-called political quota for ambassadors and consuls basic. The mandates of many ambassadors are prolonged arbitrarily. Lustration, rejected by the Constitutional Court docket as unlawful, has been established, in relation to senior diplomatic personnel, because the official coverage of all establishments associated to them. An impression is created of unprincipled bargaining between the establishments and even lobbying stress, which distorts the traditional process for appointments overseas. All the Diplomatic Service suffers from these violations and political voluntarism. The alternatives for realizing Bulgarian priorities on the worldwide stage and for shielding nationwide pursuits, in addition to the traditional profession growth of younger diplomatic personnel, are restricted.
3. We discover that establishments attempt to use detrimental gradation when presenting the “tranches”. Regardless of our remarks relating to the skilled {qualifications} of colleagues proposed as ambassadors in some international locations, on the whole the primary “tranche” may be assessed as passable. The second “tranche” proved, nonetheless, that every one the detrimental choices from the earlier years in figuring out the highest diplomatic representatives overseas are already a longtime apply. We’re subsequently anxiously awaiting the affirmation of the following ‘tranche’. The details about the inclusion of some iconic names, a few new improve within the political quota and using “progressive” interpretations and instruments to bypass the Diplomatic Service Legislation are alarming. After the formation of the whole “bundle” of recent ambassadors, BDD will current its commentary and abstract evaluation.
In conclusion, one can solely categorical bewilderment as to the explanations and logic of changing the management of such a big a part of the nation’s overseas missions just some months earlier than the parliamentary elections. A brand new authorities after the elections might be confronted with the truth that for nearly its complete parliamentary time period its overseas coverage might be performed by individuals who’re a minimum of not of its alternative and hardly get pleasure from its belief.
It could be an expression of political logic and above all of political tradition for the establishments and political events to agree on a moratorium on the appointment of recent heads of nationwide missions overseas till the upcoming parliamentary elections.
US of BDD
26.11.2020, Sofia
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