Ambassador to Austria Heads Bulgaria's Diplomatic Corps

Ambassador Radi Naydenov is the new head of the Bulgarian diplomatic service. Photo by Frog news

Bulgaria's Ambassador to Austria Radi Naydenov is the new Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry, which is the highest post in the country's diplomatic service.

Naydenov has been Bulgaria's Ambassador to Austria since 2005. He is more publicly known for being the head of the cabinet of former Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, Bulgaria's former Tsar, in 2002-2005. In 2001-2002, he was a deputy minister of defense in the Saxe-Coburg government.

Radi Naydenov was born in Sofia in 1962; he a graduate of the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and the George Marshall Center. He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1992, and has worked in the Bulgarian embassies in Bern, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany.

The outgoing Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Maxim Gaytandzhiev has been appointed in the Latin American section of the ministry.

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