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Bulgaria's PM to Be Guest Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

by Sofia News Agency www.novinite.com

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev set off Monday on a one-week visit to the USA as part of which he is going to deliver a lecture at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Stanishev's keynote lecture is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 29th at 4:30pm at the Taubman Building. It will be entitled "Bulgaria as a Stabilizing Factor in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region". The lecture of the Bulgarian PM is hosted by the Kokkalis Program on South-Eastern and East-Central Europe, which was founded in 1997 by the Greek telecommunications and gambling billionaire Socrates Kokkalis. Kokkalis is known for his involvement with the former East German secret service Stasi, and for the legal suits against his companies Intracom and Intralot, which owns 49% of the Eurofootball lottery in Bulgaria. During his visit to the USA Bulgaria's Prime Minister will attend the 63rd regular session of UN General Assembly, which is to be opened on Wednesday, September 24. He is also going to take part in the summit meeting on the UN Millennium Development Goals. In Scandinavian House in New York City Stanishev is going to open an exhibition dedicated to the 100-th anniversary since Bulgaria's declaration of independence. Stanishev's program in the USA also includes meetings with the UN Development Program administrator Kemal Dervish, Malta's PM Lawrence Gonzi, Denmark's PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former US Secretary of State and Chair of the National Democratic Institute Madeline Albright, Belgium's Yves Leterme, Croatia's PM Ivo Sanader, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Bulgaria's PM will also visit Boston, MA, where he will meet with the local Bulgarian community, with the Bulgarian Harvard Club, and with the American Jewish Committee.