Unification is our inspiration, united we have succeeded and only united we will remain, said President Rumen Radev in his speech on the occasion of 140 years since the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in Plovdiv, BNT reported.
I believe that united we will all overcome today's weaknesses and together we will build Bulgaria in the testaments of our ancestors - a free, democratic, just, prosperous Bulgaria, he added. I believe that we will overcome the eternal divisions that make us vulnerable from the outside, and today these faults are dangerous for the state, the president pointed out.
We will reject disbelief in our own strength, because we have paid dearly in the past for the humiliating understanding that nothing depended on us and that our fate was decided somewhere else, we will leave the comfort of cowardice, Rumen Radev also said.
The ceremony was attended by the Speaker of the National Assembly Natalia Kiselova, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, Vice President Iliyana Yotova, the Mayor of Plovdiv Kostadin Dimitrov, the Regional Governor of Plovdiv, ministers, deputies, municipal councilors, etc.