The German Foreign Minister said he met with the Romanian President Rosen Plevneliev, and not Klaus Iohannis. The blunder was published on his Facebook account comes after another blunder occurred in our country.
"Towards the end of my visit to Bulgaria I was received by the Romanian President Rosen Plevneliev," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a message posted Tuesday on Facebook after a blunder in Romania, informs Novinite website. Com.
A few hours later the mistake was corrected after being the target of a series of angry comments, including those of Bulgarians, according to Bulgarian daily BGglas.
During the official visit the German foreign minister undertook in Bulgaria Tuesday he met with Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov , with Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and the Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Mikhail Mikov.
Steinmeier attended on Monday, involuntarily, a similar blunder committed during the visit he made in Romania.
He was unpleasantly surprised in Bucharest by his Romanian counterpart Bogdan Aurescu, who handed him a celebration brochure marking 135 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. On the cover of the brochure, instead of the German map, the map of France was printed, shaded in German flag colors, along with the map of Romania.
The Romanian authorities apologized immediately for the blunder. Also Aurescu apologized personally to Steinmeier, who said he did not notice the mistake.