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BULGARIA PROTESTS ISRAELI DECISION ON FORMER KING MEMORIAL

Foreign Ministry spokesman Radko Vlaikov on 20 July said "everything possible" must be
done to prevent the plans of the Jewish National Fund to replace a memorial in Israel honoring
King Boris III, Reuters reported.

Vlaikov said bilateral relations with Israel are "excellent" but the move "would embitter them."

After Israeli experts ruled that King Boris III did not act to save Macedonian and Thracian Jews
from deportation to Nazi death camps (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 18 July 2000), the fund intends to
replace the memorial for the king with two other memorials- -one honoring the victims deported from
the two regions that were then were under Bulgarian occupation and the other honoring
Bulgarians who saved Jews, without mentioning any names,

Reuters reported. MS