SOFIA LODGES FORMAL PROTEST.

While Moscow chose not to comment on its specific contents, a deputy foreign minister confirmed yesterday that he had received the Bulgarian ambassador and had been handed a note in connection with Boris Yeltsin’s recent remarks on Bulgaria. (Interfax, March 29) The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry had announced April 5 that it would lodge a formal protest over Yeltsin’s controversial March 29 remark that suggested Sofia might be interested in joining a Russian-led political union. (See Monitor, April 8)

Russian Delegation to North Korea.