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PRIME MINISTER BOYKO BORISSOV AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DMITRY MEDVEDEV MET AT THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

04.03.2019

 

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov welcomed the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the delegation led by him at Alexander Nevski Square, after which the guest laid a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. The visit continued with a one-to-one meeting between the two Prime Ministers at the Council of Ministers building and plenary talks between the two delegations.

 

The delegation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev included the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Godolets, Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade and Chairman of the Russian Section of the Russian-Bulgarian Intergovernmental Committee for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, Alexander Novak - Minister of Energy, Maxim Oreshkin - Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Topilin - Minister of Labor and Social Protection, Zarina Dogusova - Head of the Federal Agency of Tourism, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko, Alexey Likhachev - General Director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom", Alexei Miller - Chairman of the Managing Board of "Gazprom", and others.

 

The Deputy Prime Ministers Ekaterina Zaharieva and Tomislav Donchev and Ministers Biser Petkov, Emil Karanikolov, Temenuzhka Petkova and Nikolina Angelkova took part in the plenary meeting of the two delegations on the Bulgarian side with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.

 

 

After the meeting between the Bulgarian and the Russian side, three bilateral cooperation documents were signed:

- Program for joint actions in the field of tourism between the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation for the period 2019-2021;

- Protocol to amend the Social Security Agreement between the two countries;

- Consultation plan between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.