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PRESIDENT TO ARBITRATE BETWEEN BULGARIANS AND ROMA

Mon, Aug 27 2007 11:24 CET 111 Views

Bulgaria's President Georgi Purvanov said that he was ready to "mediate and play an active role" for the obliteration of tensions between Bulgarians and Roma.

Purvanov said that tensions between Bulgarians and Roma should not be provoked and the everyday-life scandals should not be turned into national news.

The law is equal for everyone and should be respected, he said.

Purvanov also called on society and the media to reject the idea of the extreme nationalist Boyan Rasate for the establishment of national guards, mediapool.bg reported.

Rasate's guards could cause ethnic and religious problems, according to Purvanov. The national guards in other European countries were established to help in cases of calamities.

The president would not convene the Consultative Council for National Security because of the frictions, mediapool.bg said.

Some 200 people took part in a brawl between Bulgarians and Roma in Sofia's Krasna Polyana residential district in mid-August 2007. Days later, a 17-year-old Roma boy died in another mass fight in the town of Samokov.

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