The Jewish population in Bulgaria is not subjected to any discriminatory policy on the part of the authorities or of the non-Jewish population is the statement issued by the Bulgarian embassy here in an attempt to counteract press reports to the contrary.
The embassy’s statement quotes statistical figures, testimony by prominent Jewish leaders of Bulgaria and some of the despatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporting events in Bulgaria, to prove its point. The Jews in Bulgaria enjoy full citizenship rights, not only individually but as an ethnical group, the embassy states. “Our country is not a fertile field for anti-Semitism since the Bulgarian people reject movements of intolerance. The government, too, has on every occasion taken all measures to suppress or prevent individual conflicts.”
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