Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov met today at the MFA with the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the US to Bulgaria H.E. Eric Rubin. The talks focused on the current geostrategic challenges and ways to tackle them, the bilateral relations and energy projects of mutual interest.
In connection with a statement made by the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the formation at the National Assembly of an Ad Hoc Committee of Inquiry into Russia's and Turkey's alleged interference into Bulgaria's internal affairs, Bulgarian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Betina Joteva released the following statement:
Today, February 15, 2016, the ninth meeting of the working groups of ministries of foreign affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia was held in Skopje. It was aimed at negotiating the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperationand and Good-neighborliness.
In connection with the strong public interest towards the information that appeared first in Turkish media about ban to travel to the Republic of Turkey on Ahmed Demir Dogan and Delyan Slavchev Peevski, Deputy Foreign Minister Valentin Poriazov has held a series of talks with Turkish Ambassador Süleyman Gökçe to request Turkey’s official position on the matter.
Minister Daniel Mitov held a meeting today with the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of Georgian Parliament Tedo Japaridze. The talks focused on Bulgaria-Georgia bilateral relations, cooperation within the regional formats, Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic perspective, transport and energy projects.
Acting in pursuance of a Council of Ministers' Decision № 404 of June 19, 2014, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a letter nominating Irina Georgieva Bokova as a candidate for the post of United Nations Secretary-General.
We strongly condemn the launch of a long-range ballistic missile by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has clearly neglected the calls of the international community to refrain from further actions that could lead to an escalation of tension in the region of Northeast Asia.
The Bulgarian-Ukrainian bilateral relations and the situation in the Black Sea region were at the focus of the meeting of Minister Daniel Mitov with a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians, led by the Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Foreign Affairs Ganna Gopko.