Dimitar Glavchev will not headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The candidate for the post in the interim government will be Ivan Kondov. He himself stated this to bTV.
In a telephone conversation and when asked if he would be in Dimitar Glavchev's new office, Ivan Kondov stated: “Yes, I received an invitation and I accepted it”.
Kondov was until now the deputy minister of foreign affairs, and Glavchev himself was in the role of minister. For a short time, Kondov was also a minister in the second government of Galab Donev, appointed by President Rumen Radev.
Who is Ivan Kondov?
Ivan Kondov was born on August 10, 1968. He graduated in “International Relations” at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia in 1994. He has acquired a course on international security issues at the Center for Security Policy Studies in Geneva in 2003, as well as a course on international relations at the Diplomatic School in Madrid in 1996 .
Professional experience
Ivan Kondov joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an expert in the “European Countries” Directorate. from 1955 to 1998. In the period 1998-2001, he was an attaché for Political Affairs and the Press at the Embassy of Bulgaria in London.
From 2001 to 2003 he was the chief expert in the “NATO” Directorate, and from 2003 to 2007 he was the first secretary in the Permanent Delegation of Bulgaria to NATO in Brussels. In the period 2007-2009, Ivan Kondov was the director of the “State Protocol” in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 2009 to 2012, he was the permanent representative of Bulgaria at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, and in the period 2012-2016 he was the director of the “Protocol” in the Administration of the President of Bulgaria.
Kondov is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Spain from 2017 to 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he is Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
In the period May 3 – June 6, 2023 is acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, appointed by presidential decree. From June 6, 2023, Kondov was again appointed as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He is currently the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the caretaker government of Dimitar Glavchev. He speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian, uses Russian and Portuguese.
And today Glavchev's office remained silent about the composition that he will propose to the president tomorrow. The plan is for most of the ministers to keep their posts. In the “Transport“ “nothing is certain”, say our sources.
The most serious interest is the question whether and with whom Dimitar Glavchev will replace Kalin Stoyanov. Today, operational management said that frequent shifts lead to tension. “This is the most unpleasant thing. This has an extremely unpleasant effect on the employees. As you can see, the current minister managed to build a good team, to work in a good environment, although the situation at the political level is not calm in general, and even so, if there is any change, it will be affected, and in a negative direction. commented the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dimitar Kangaldzhiev. “I don't know what conversations were held, with whom they were held, it is none of my business. Whatever is going to happen, I guess it will become clear tomorrow”, added Kangaldzhiev.