ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is scheduled to visit Bulgaria. Minister of Transport and Communications of Bulgaria Rossen Jeliazkov told about this in an exclusive interview with ArmInfo.
"The Prime Minister of Armenia will visit Sofia soon. This visit is vivid evidence of high-level political relations between the two countries," said the Bulgarian minister, who was in Yerevan to participate in the Armenian-Bulgarian business forum and the meeting of the intergovernmental commission.
At the same time, speaking about the level of the Armenian-Bulgarian trade and economic relations, Jeliazkov expressed dissatisfaction with the existing state of affairs, expressing the conviction that there are all the makings of for stimulating interaction in this direction.
The full text of the interview with the Bulgarian Minister will be published on Monday, March 18.
To note diplomatic relations between Armenia and Bulgaria were established on January 18, 1992. January 15, 2008 Between Armenia and Bulgaria, there is an Armenian-Bulgarian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific and technical cooperation. The 7th meeting was held in 2015. December 14-15 in Sofia. We note that the last high-level visit from Armenia to Bulgaria was in 2016 at the level of Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan. Also in 2008 Bulgaria was visited by the third President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, 2007. Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan; Second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan visited Bulgaria twice in 2003 and 2005. The first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, was also in Sofia in 1995.
Meanwhile, the last high-level visit from Bulgaria to Armenia was in 2018 at the level of President Rumen Radev. In addition, in 2015, Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly Krasimir Karakachanov visited Yerevan, in 2013 - Bulgarian Foreign Minister Christian Vigenin, 2012 - Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov, in 2012 - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, 2007 - Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, in 2006 Georgi Pirinski, President of the National Assembly; in 2005, Foreign Minister Solomon Passy; in 2004, President Georgi Parvanov; in 1999, President Peter Stojanov.