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BULGARIA'S PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS ETHNIC INTOLERANCE DEMONSTRATIONS

Fri, Jul 28 2006 10:00 CET

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Parliament condemned ethnic intolerance demonstrations and the questioning of Bulgaria's ethnic and religious tolerance model.

The statement comes after unidentified individuals tried to set on fire a mosque in Kazanluk on July 26, Bulgarian National Radio reported.

National Assembly approved a declaration stating that the institution would fight such attempts aimed at producing ethnic divisions within the country.

Bulgaria was about to join the EU as a country where different cultures and religions co-existed and the National Assembly was going to guarantee this model was followed, the declaration said.

Ultra-nationalist movement Ataka opposed some of the statements in the declaration during the debates, Bulgarian National Radio reported.

Ataka member Stanislav Stanilov said the document cannot be accepted until the people who tried to set the mosque on fire were arrested and their motivation became known.

National Movement Simeon II (NMSII) member Olimpi Kutev said that the case in Kazanluk was not the first and certainly not the last. Such acts of vandalism should not be turned into something more important than they actually are, Kutev said.

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