Bulgaria, Israel to Focus Ties on Hi-Tech, Agriculture

Politics » DIPLOMACY | August 11, 2010, Wednesday // 19:29
Bulgaria: Bulgaria, Israel to Focus Ties on Hi-Tech, Agriculture Bulgarian PM Borisov (left front) met with Isreali President Shimon Peres (right front) in Sofia Wednesday. Photo by BGNES

President of Israel Shimon Peres was received Wednesday in Sofia by Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

The two state leaders have agreed that hi-tech sectors and agriculture harbor the greatest potential for cooperation between businesses and state institutions of Bulgaria and Israel.

Peres and Borisov also discussed the potential of Bulgaria as a destination for Israeli tourists, announced the press service of the Council of Ministers.

The President of Israel expressed – as he did several times during the first day of his visit in Sofia – the gratitude of his country towards Bulgaria for the rescue of the some 50 000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II.

Peres’s last meeting with Borisov took place in January 2010 during the latter’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Peres’s visit to Bulgaria comes about a month after the visit of the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.

Earlier on Wednesday, Shimon Peres met with his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov, who awarded him Bulgaria's highest state order, as well as with representatives of the Jewish community in Bulgaria.

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Tags: Shimon Peres, Israel, Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister, agriculture, hi-tech, rescue of Bulgarian Jews

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