BULGARIA TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS IN ARMENIA
Spasena Baramova

Sofia Echo
Nov 14 2007
Bulgaria

After a meeting Armenian prime minister Serzh Sergsyan in Yerevan on
November 13, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev announced that
Armenia would receive financial support from Bulgaria as an EU member
state, a media statement by the Council of Ministers said. Stanishev
said he expected Armenia to come up with specific education and
professional qualification projects to be financed by Bulgaria.

The two ministers agreed that economic relations between the two
countries had great potential and should be developed to match their
excellent political relations.

In spring 2008 Bulgaria and Armenia would carry out a session of the
Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and Scientific-Technical
Cooperation to discuss the obstacles to improve economic relations.

Preparation for a Bulgarian-Armenian business forum to be held in
Bulgaria in 2008 began. 2008 would be an year of Bulgarian culture
in Armenia.

Five bilateral documents were signed in Yerevan on November 13,
among which a readmission agreement, an agreement to create the
Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and Scientific-Technical
Cooperation, an agriculture and stock-breeding programme.

Co-operation in the sphere of youth activities and sports was also
negotiated.

On November 14 Stanishev would meet chairman of the Armenian National
Assembly Tigran Torosyan and Armenian president Robert Kocharyan.

After that he would meet lecturers and students from the Yerevan
State University and visit Peyo Yavorov high school as well as the
Armenia-Bulgaria friendship society.