`The Stability Pact is ready to provide all of its instruments to help Bulgaria join the European structures and achieve a fast economic growth`, Special Coordinator Bodo Hombach said on Monday. Hombach is on a two-day visit to Bulgaria. Following his first meeting with the country`s new Finance Minister, Milen Velchev, Hombach praised the new government team and said that a new chapter can be opened of better and more substantial cooperation in fighting corruption. He said that he could not explain to the international community why Bulgaria wanted to withdraw from the initiative at one point. After meeting Minister of Transport and Communications Plamen Petrov, Hombach said he is pleased that the project for a new bridge over the Danube at Vidin-Calafat has reached such a good stage, adding that the bridge is seen as a priority for the Stability Pact. The two also discussed the construction of a highway Sofia-Nis (Yugoslavia). Petrov said that in September they are having a meeting with the Yugoslav side and the Stability Pact Special Coordinator to try to accelerate the implementation of the project. Hombach said it is a new project, which he hopes will be ready by the end of October so that it can be presented at the Regional Conference in Bucharest.

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