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"According to the former Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy, who is current chairman of the Parliamentary commission of Foreign Policy, a total of 82,000 foreigners have applied for Bulgarian citizenship so far, the Macedonian daily Vreme reports. Despite the high interest for Bulgarian passports in Macedonia, the largest number of passports have been issued to people from Moldova, he said. As the Bulgarian citizenship is becoming more and more attractive, the Parliament of the country adopted to make the procedure even easier." [Brief]