AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Visa waiver for Bulgaria is good for U.S. security?(Inside Track)(Viewpoint essay)(Brief article)
In a June 18 White House meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, President Bush announced that "today because of the Prime Minister's hard work, there has been a breakthrough on the visa waiver, as an important step toward achieving the same status as other countries in the EU." The Montenegro Times reported that "Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin and US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff signed an interim declaration" under the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, which outlines the "requirements Bulgaria must meet to join the 27 Asian and European countries currently in the program." Citizens of visa waiver countries are allowed to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without having to obtain a visa.
Bulgaria, which was one of the most repressive communist police states during the Soviet era, has not shaken its totalitarian past, regardless of its claims of reform. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov proudly parades his KGB pedigree on his official website. Many of his appointees, likewise, are publicly documented "former" ...
- (News Focus) Can visa waiver help warm Seoul-Tokyo ties?
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea February 7, 2006 700+ words
...Japan announced an indefinite visa waiver program to allow South Koreans...name for the rocky outcroppings. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid homage at...Koizumi may be trying to use the visa waiver as a carrot to draw Roh to the...
- NK, Malaysia to Sign Visa Waiver Pact.
- Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) March 15, 2000 700+ words
...North Korea and Malaysia will sign a visa waiver agreement on March 23, timed with Foreign...isolated regime because it is the first visa waiver agreement North Korea is set to sign...Kuala Lumpur. Meanwhile, he said that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad would visit South Korea...
- EU: CENTRAL EUROPEAN STATES SIGN VISA WAIVER DEALS WITH U.S.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service April 15, 2008 700+ words
...members. The first beneficiary of the visa waiver program will be the Czech Republic...forthcoming period," Chren said. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek accused the EU of...the U.S., its recently appointed Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismisses the visa controversy...
- EU/US : NEW MEMBER STATES PUSH FOR INDIVIDUAL US VISA-WAIVER DEALS.
- Newspaper article from: European Report February 20, 2008 700+ words
...understanding, granting access to the US Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) in exchange for a...The Czech Republic has confirmed that Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek intends to sign the...Frattini failed to convince Czech Vice-Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra...
- EU/US : COMMISSION TRIES TO COOL ROW OVER US VISA WAIVER.(Czech Republic...
- Newspaper article from: European Report February 15, 2008 700+ words
...United States, the Czech Vice-Prime Minister in charge of European affairs...cannot be included in the US Visa Waiver Programme (VWP). The Czechs...the scheduled visit of Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to the White...
- Sinn Fein said to seek a visa waiver Us to get petition on an IRA founders visit
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Kevin Cullen, Globe Staff August 30, 1994 700+ words
...government sources said Sunday might be made late tonight. The timing would be widely seen as a political favor to Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, because parliamentary debate on the beef scandal, in which his integrity was questioned, is scheduled...
- Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Ivo Sanader of Croatia in...
- Magazine article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Bush, George W April 14, 2008 700+ words
...and I appreciate the Prime Minister's advice and counsel...Croatia, and that is the visa waiver policy. I fully understand, Mr. Prime Minister, that some in your country wonder why our visa waiver policy is for you-different...
- Remarks by President Bush after Meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Sanader.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 5, 2008 700+ words
...and I appreciate the Prime Minister's advice and counsel...Croatia, and that is the visa waiver policy. I fully understand, Mr. Prime Minister, that some in your country wonder why our visa waiver policy is for -- is different...
