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Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's Prime Minister has said that the dispute over transit transport permits with Turkey could be resolved at a meeting of the transport ministers of the two countries.
In a Saturday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Plamen Oresharski revealed details about his meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi.
He suggested that the transport ministers of Bulgaria and Turkey were to hold a meeting to find a solution to the truck deadlock at the border.
Oresharski noted that he and Erdogan had agreed to schedule a joint sitting of the two governments in Sofia at a mutually convenient time, after the upcoming elections in Turkey in March and r the European Parliament elections in May.
The last joint sitting of the governments of Bulgaria and Turkey took place in March 2012 in Ankara, during the term in office of the center-right GERB government, according to reports of mediapool.bg.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister informed that the upcoming visit of Turkey's Foreign Minister to Bulgaria, which was postponed due to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, had also been on the agenda of his meeting with Erdogan.
Regarding his meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Oresharski informed that he had expressed Bulgaria's ambitions to boost exports to Russia.
He specified that the South Stream gas pipeline project had not been among the topics of discussion with Medvedev, adding that a sitting of the joint Russian–Bulgarian Commission for Commercial, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation was to take place in April.
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