WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador Elena Poptodorova. 00:04.000 --> 00:09.000 I've been engaged in work with ICD for many years now. 00:09.000 --> 00:15.000 Ever since my time in the United States as Bulgaria's Ambassador, 00:15.000 --> 00:22.000 I served two times there, a total of over 12 years from 2002 through 2016. 00:22.000 --> 00:26.000 And all that time I've also been engaged with ICD. 00:26.000 --> 00:35.000 The roots are obvious. The roots have to do with ignorance, with manipulative information, 00:35.000 --> 00:43.000 with, unfortunately, easy use of that kind of moods for political ends. 00:43.000 --> 00:51.000 And I think it's a joint responsibility, of course, of the political leaders in the respective countries 00:51.000 --> 01:00.000 to be able not to yield to the temptation of using easy flows and easy public moods, 01:00.000 --> 01:04.000 but also it has to do, and this is probably the harder part, 01:04.000 --> 01:10.000 it has to do with the way generations have been raised and educated. 01:10.000 --> 01:19.000 And this is why I think that ICD is so important, because it's an organization which can easily go into that particular direction 01:19.000 --> 01:27.000 and try to work with national groups in more countries on the level of education and information. 01:27.000 --> 01:34.000 And I have to mention media, being with the media now, I have to mention here the huge importance, critical importance of media, 01:34.000 --> 01:44.000 and social media in particular, where oftentimes there is no accountability at all about what kind of ideas are being spread around. 01:44.000 --> 01:59.000 So that's a complex answer to your question, so it's both cultural, political, historic motives that bring about this unhappy situation. 01:59.000 --> 02:05.000 The solution is contained in the answer to the first question. 02:05.000 --> 02:12.000 Good faith, clear mind, clear intentions. 02:12.000 --> 02:23.000 You need dedicated people to go out and just begin the process, which is very long and very hard, but it has to start. 02:23.000 --> 02:36.000 Listen, Turkey is very special to Bulgarians too, not to mention that practically we somehow have Turkish cuisine, 02:36.000 --> 02:46.000 so very much in our households, in our houses that it's considered to be Bulgarian, so many words back and forth. 02:46.000 --> 02:50.000 So, Turkey is part of Bulgaria's history. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 I have relatives who was born in Bulgaria. 02:53.000 --> 03:03.000 You see, it's such a close relationship, and this is probably why we've always been very conscious and careful of keeping good relations with Turkey. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 And that has not changed. 03:06.000 --> 03:17.000 You know that in Bulgaria and in other countries there are, unfortunately, some radical parties, nationalistic parties, 03:17.000 --> 03:29.000 they like to call themselves patriotic parties, it sounds better, but even though there have been attempts to somehow distance Bulgarian politics from Turkey, 03:29.000 --> 03:32.000 it never worked, regardless of governments. 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 So, that's going to be. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 Yeah. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 Yeah. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Yeah. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 Yeah. 03:39.000 --> 03:40.000 Thank you so much, man, for this time. 03:40.000 --> 03:41.000 Thank you so much. 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Yeah. 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Thank you. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 God. 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 Thank you so much. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Yeah. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Yeah. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 Yeah. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 I, even, yeah, I've heard those videos just during this place. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Yeah? 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Yeah. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 Yeah. 03:53.000 --> 03:57.820 You know my 03:57.820 --> 03:59.180 And women, I need to know that Sarah's eight powerful, but I thinkitude, could I am Hello. 03:59.180 --> 04:00.000 Only when I saw that single, but I were the recently treated or to be seated up anointed.