Bulgaria's envoys to six countries in North Africa will open officesers for biometrical data, EU Affairs Minister Gergana Grancharova announced on Wednesday.

She announced the news upon delivering her report for her work as a deputy foreign minister for the period September 2005-March 2007 before the MPs from the parliamentary commission of foreign policy.

In the offices people from the six African countries will be taken fingerprints and other biometrical data when they want to visit Bulgaria. This is done because Bulgaria has to be a secure an external border of the EU, Grancharova said. Such offices will be first opened ion Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco.

It is a good sing that the US Senate has adopted a proposal for the citizens of the countries that contribute to States' efforts in their missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bulgaria being one of them, to travel without visas to the USA, Grancharova said. Still, it is the Congress final decision for the proposal to be fully adopted.

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