Bulgarian President to pay two-day official visit to Turkey

Bulgarian President to pay two-day official visit to Turkey

27 November 2012 | 14:52 | FOCUS News Agency

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Sofia. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is to pay a two-day official visit to Turkey on 28 and 29 November, announced the press service of the President’s Office.

The visit is continuation of the political dialog at the highest level between Bulgaria and Turkey.

The visit will focus on measures for strengthening bilateral trade, economic and investment relations and on exchange of opinions on topical regional and international issues and initiatives of mutual interest.

On 28 November the Bulgarian head of state will lay a wreath in Kemal Ataturk Mausoleum and hold a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul. The two delegations will hold plenary talks.

President Plevneliev is to confer also with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek and representatives of Bulgarian emigrant organizations in Ankara.

On 29 November in Istanbul President Plevneliev is to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and visit the Bulgarian Exarchate.

Rosen Plevneliev is to visit the first European railway station of the future railway tunnel under the Bosphorus. The tunnel will connect the Asian and European part of Turkey and its construction is included in a project for connecting Central Europe with Asia through a high-speed railway line.

In Istanbul the Bulgarian head of state is to hold meetings with representatives of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey and Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey. He is to talks also with representatives of emigrant organizations.

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