Politics: 2 December 2006, Saturday.

All the secret files of the former communist intelligence structures should be publicized, ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms' leader Ahmed Dogan said Saturday.

The state structure that will decide whether the information would present a threat to national security should be the future secret files commission that is yet to be formed, Dogan said, quoted by Darik News.

The whole point of the secret files bill that the government failed to vote Friday was for the nation to live its catharsis, Dogan said, and any attempt to change it would not be good for the country. The MPs failed to agree on whether the secret files of these people should be made public if the national security or their lives are endangered.

The new delay in vote came under the pressure of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, which wanted each case to be reviewed individually by a special commission.

Dogan opened a two-day MRF forum on assuming EU funds that gathered over 200 representatives of the party. There will be a new criterion for the quality of the ruling parties in Bulgaria and it will be the extent to which they are ready to effectively use the EU funds and cooperate with the Union's structures. Up until now everyone in Bulgaria looked at the matter in a more virtual manner, the Turkish leader added.

Bulgaria: Ethnic Turks' Leader Pushing for Opening Bulgaria's Secret Files

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