Bulgaria

This page is for the Bulgaria delegates. The guides to what information we need I took from the MUN guide that Mr. Z. sent us. Please write down whatever you find here.

Name of Country: Bulgaria Capital(s) of the country: Sofia Continent: Europe (Southern) Demonym: Bulgarian Language(s): Bulgarian Is it a part of a bloc and what views does it hold compared to other bloc members?: It is a part of the Eastern European Group, which includes:


 * * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/22px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png height="16"]] [|Albania]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png height="11"]] [|Armenia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png height="11"]] [|Azerbaijan]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/22px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png height="11"]] [|Belarus]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/22px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png height="11"]] [|Bosnia and Herzegovina]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/22px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png height="13"]] [|Bulgaria]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png height="11"]] [|Croatia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png height="15"]] [|Czech Republic] || *  [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png height="14"]] [|Estonia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png height="15"]] [|Georgia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/22px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png height="11"]] [|Hungary]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png height="11"]] [|Latvia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/22px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png height="13"]] [|Lithuania]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_Macedonia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Macedonia.svg.png height="11" caption="Republic of Macedonia" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia"]] [|Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/22px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png height="11"]] [|Moldova]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/22px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png height="11"]] [|Montenegro] || *  [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/22px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png height="14"]] [|Poland]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/22px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png height="15"]] [|Romania]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png height="15"]] [|Russian Federation]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png height="15"]] [|Serbia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png height="15"]] [|Slovakia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png height="11"]] [|Slovenia]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/22px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png height="15"]] [|Ukraine]

These are the countries that make up the bloc. This is a voting bloc, which means that the countries within it share most of their views. The blocs are decided based on their geographic locations.

Politics and government:

Form of government: Parliamentary democracy Does the Monarchy influence politics? There is no monarchy Was the country a Colony or a Coloniser? No Does Religion Influence Politics? (Theocracy) Most people are Orthodox (82.6%); there are some Muslims (12.2%); then there are other religions such as Jews. Religion is an important pert of life, but it does not influence politics). Affiliation to political organizations? Bulgaria's allies or friendly countries are: UN/ ECE/ NATO/ Council of Europe/ Central European Initiative/ G-9/ CEFTA/ OSCE/ Australia Group/ Zangger Committee/ CERN/ Nuclear Suppliers Group. Is the government independent? Yes Is there a Monarchy? No Current ruling parties? GERB Head of state? Georgi Purvanov is the President, Boyko Borisov is the Prime Minister and the one with the real power.

Geography, Culture and Social:

Coastline or Landlocked? Coastline, linked to the Black Sea Surface Area: 110,912kms (slightly larger than the state Tennessee Major Religions:Orthodox Population of country: 7.6 million Land type: On the south-West there are mountains, near to the sea are plains Life span: 0-14 year old: 13.8% 15-64 year old: 68.5% 65+ year olds: 17.7% Ethnic groups (meaning groups of people connected with a special language/ cultural trait/etc.): Turks, Romas, Russians, Jews, Armenians, Tatars, Greeks. Most Ethnic groups intergarate with the society, especially the Turkish.

Poverty rate: 14% Major religions: Orthodox, Muslim, Other Christian, Other Literacy rate: 98.2%

Indigenous people: Pastoral nomads (People that move logement depending on the season that take care of pastures & stock animals); Romance-speaking Vlachs (Romance-speaking refers to vulgar latin) Greek-speaking Karakachans (also called Sarkatsans)

Machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics; fuels, minerals, and raw materials (Imports from Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Austria (2009) )

Agriculture Products: vegetables, fruits, tobacco, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets; livestock Natural Resources: bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land Industries: electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco; machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum, nuclear fuel

GNI (Gross National Income)- $1,777.28 per person

Clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels (Exports to Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Belgium, France (2009) )

ECONOMY

GNP= Gross National Product GNP- 26.74 billion dollars GNP Per Capita- 3, 473 dollars

Human Development Index (HDI) 0.743 (Rank 58) Percentage of Unemployment: 9.5% (2010)

GDP (Total): $21.48 per $100 (2010) GDP: purchasing power parity - $91.83 billion (2010)GDP growth rate: 0% (2010) GDP per capita: $12,800 (2010) Agriculture: 7.5% Industry: 27.6% Services: 64.9%

Defense:

NATO (Military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America)

Independent Military

Is a NATO member country with a large indigenous defense industry. Most of its weaponry is of Soviet design, but with significantly improved performance.

Members are: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Rep, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, UK and USA

Has developed weaposn fo mass destruction, ost notably chemical weapons. Bulgaria had a significant missle arsenal, including 67 SCUD- B, dozens of FROG- 7 and 24 SS-23 ballistic missiles. Since the USSR planned to rapidly deploy its own nuclear weapons in Bulgaria in case a war broke out, the missiles were not armed with warheads, but only prepared to launch Soviet weapons

East Central and South-East Europe Division with : Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkey

There hasn't been a military nuclear program either, although some treaties with the Soviet Union guaranteed deployment of Soviet warheads on Bulgarian territory in case of a war with NATO. The country has a significant nuclear potential, having a nuclear powerplant at Kozloduy. The plutonium, produced there is sent to Russia for reprocessing. Two new nuclear reactors are expected to be finished by 2013 at the new Belene Nuclear Power Plant.

Military Branches -Bulgarian Armed Forces - Ground Forces, Naval Forces - Bulgarian Air Forces

Environment:

Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, landslides

Electricoty Consumption: 29.9 billion kwh

Affiliation with Greenpeace

Natural resources-bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land

Good natural resources management

Renwable Resources- solar energy

strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia

International Agreements: -party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic- Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands ***

The 1979 Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution is one of the central means for protecting our environment. It has, over the years, served as a bridge between different political systems and as a factor of stability in years of political change. It has substantially contributed to the development of international environmental law and has created the essential framework for controlling and reducing the damage to human health and the environment caused by transboundary air pollution. It is a successful example of what can be achieved through intergovernmental cooperation. http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/full%20text/1979.CLRTAP.e.pdf

Current Issues: air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes

Influence:

When did your country join the UN? December 14, 1955

Affiliation with Environmental Organisation: Greenpeace

Security Council- not a member ECOSOC- not a member

After collapse of Soviet Union, Europe and Middle East have become the main focus of Bulgeria foreign policy.

A SPECIAL THANKS TO LUCIA LAZZARESCHI. I DID SOME RESEARCH, BUT IN THE END IT TURNED OUT THAT NOTHING THAT I COULD FIND COULD MATCH YOUR RESEARCH. YOU ARE THE BEST.