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| | Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | February 18, 1999: Bulgaria’s parliament ratified a resolution for the protection of minorities, while also adopting another document stating that the ratification "by no means sanctions activities harming the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the unified Bulgarian state, its internal and international security," indicating that Bulgaria would not accept any degree of separatism. |
 | | October 16, 1999: Bulgaria held a first round of municipal elections that, according to a spokesman for the electoral commission, had a turnout rate of 45 percent, the lowest turnout rate since Bulgaria’s first democratic elections in 1990. |
 | | March 20, 2002: Mimicking actions of the Romanian government, Bulgaria refused to allow a group of 200 Kurds on a Turkish Kurd PKK party-organized protest march from Western Europe to march through Bulgarian territory and hold demonstrations on the Turkish border, citing a 1992 friendship treaty with Turkey. |
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