About 20 years ago, on 7 May 1992, Bulgaria became a full member of the Council of Europe. Now we celebrate this anniversary which will remain a historic event for us. I was proud to be one of those first members from Bulgaria present when the Bulgarian flag was raised in front of the European Palace as the first sign of the reintegration of my country into the free world. But we who were there in 1992 in this Chamber were not the first Bulgarian fighters for the European idea.