The Bulgarian embassy in the Serbian capital Belgrade has been instructed to take action before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia in connection with the case of BTA stringer in Bosilegrad and Chairman of the GLAS Association there, Aleksandar Dimitrov, the Foreign Ministry said Friday in response to a BTA inquiry.
On August 9 Dimitrov told BTA that was stopped from entering Serbia from Bulgaria on Wednesday on the grounds that he was carrying three books in Bulgarian, Dimitrov told BTA. He said Serbian border and customs authorities had held him at the Ribarci checkpoint for four hours for carrying three copies of "The Fate of Bulgarians in the Western Outlands" by the former consul in Nis, Edvin Sugarev.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been informed about the problem with Alexandar Dimitrov and the Bulgarian language books he was carrying at the Ribaritsa-Oltomanci border checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Serbian border, which were withheld by the Serbian authorities. The Consulate General of Bulgaria in Nis has been in contact with Dimitrov from the moment of his detention and subsequent admission to the territory of Serbia, including the confiscation of the books ordered by the Serbian customs authorities, the ministry said.
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