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POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIAN AND BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTRIES HELD IN SOFIA
Noyan Tapan
Jan 25, 2008
SOFIA, JANUARY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The delegation led by Armen Bayburdian,
the RA Deputy Foreign Minister, was in Bulgaria on a working visit
on January 23-24. According to the report provided to NT by the RA
Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department, the visit's primary
goal was to hold political consultations between the two countries'
Foreign Ministries.
During the consultations held on January 23 with participation of
A. Bayburdian and Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgenia Koldanova,
the sides touched upon international and regional developments,
implementation of the RA Actions Plan within the framework of the
European Neighborhood Policy, cooperation of the two countries at
international organizations and issues related to development of
bilateral and many-sided cooperation in the Black Sea region.
Thoughts on reforms implemented in the two countries, relations with
the neighbors, developments in the direction of Nagorno Karabakh and
Kosovo problems were exchanged.
Touching upon the results registered in the recent years in
Armenian-Bulgarian bilateral political, economic, scientific and
cultural spheres, the interlocutors reached concrete agreements in
the direction of implementation of a number of new programs.
A. Bayburdian gave a public lecture under the title "Armenia's
European Policy" the same day at the Diplomatic Institute attached
to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry. An agreement was reached with
the Diplomatic Institute's management to organize retraining courses
for Armenian diplomats in Sofia and lectures with participation of
Bulgarian specialists in Yerevan.
On January 24, A. Bayburdian met with Nikolay Vasilyev, the Bulgarian
State Government Minister, the Co-chairman of the Armenian-Bulgarian
Intergovernmental Commission. Touching upon problems of trade and
economic relations, the sides attached importance to the agreements
reached during Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev's visit to
Armenia in November 2007, discussed the details of organization of a
business forum in the current year in Bulgaria and holding of the next
sitting of the Armenian-Bulgarian Intergovernmenal Commission in Sofia.
An agreement to organize retrainings of RA servicemen in Bulgaria
from 2008 with financing of the Bulgarian side was reached. From
spring of the current year a great number of Armenian servicemen
will receive proper specialization in Bulgaria in the spheres of
European integration, efficient government, electronic management,
and other spheres, on the basis of the experience of most successful
directions of reforms in Bulgaria.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Noyan Tapan
Jan 25, 2008
SOFIA, JANUARY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The delegation led by Armen Bayburdian,
the RA Deputy Foreign Minister, was in Bulgaria on a working visit
on January 23-24. According to the report provided to NT by the RA
Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department, the visit's primary
goal was to hold political consultations between the two countries'
Foreign Ministries.
During the consultations held on January 23 with participation of
A. Bayburdian and Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgenia Koldanova,
the sides touched upon international and regional developments,
implementation of the RA Actions Plan within the framework of the
European Neighborhood Policy, cooperation of the two countries at
international organizations and issues related to development of
bilateral and many-sided cooperation in the Black Sea region.
Thoughts on reforms implemented in the two countries, relations with
the neighbors, developments in the direction of Nagorno Karabakh and
Kosovo problems were exchanged.
Touching upon the results registered in the recent years in
Armenian-Bulgarian bilateral political, economic, scientific and
cultural spheres, the interlocutors reached concrete agreements in
the direction of implementation of a number of new programs.
A. Bayburdian gave a public lecture under the title "Armenia's
European Policy" the same day at the Diplomatic Institute attached
to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry. An agreement was reached with
the Diplomatic Institute's management to organize retraining courses
for Armenian diplomats in Sofia and lectures with participation of
Bulgarian specialists in Yerevan.
On January 24, A. Bayburdian met with Nikolay Vasilyev, the Bulgarian
State Government Minister, the Co-chairman of the Armenian-Bulgarian
Intergovernmental Commission. Touching upon problems of trade and
economic relations, the sides attached importance to the agreements
reached during Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev's visit to
Armenia in November 2007, discussed the details of organization of a
business forum in the current year in Bulgaria and holding of the next
sitting of the Armenian-Bulgarian Intergovernmenal Commission in Sofia.
An agreement to organize retrainings of RA servicemen in Bulgaria
from 2008 with financing of the Bulgarian side was reached. From
spring of the current year a great number of Armenian servicemen
will receive proper specialization in Bulgaria in the spheres of
European integration, efficient government, electronic management,
and other spheres, on the basis of the experience of most successful
directions of reforms in Bulgaria.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress