Bulgaria President Heading for Moscow: Relations with Russia Best in 20 Years

Politics | February 4, 2009, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria Bulgaria President Heading for Moscow: Relations with Russia Best in 20 Years: Bulgaria President Heading for Moscow: Relations with Russia Best in 20 Years Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov is heading for Moscow a year after the top-level visit of Vladimir Putin to Sofia. Photo by BGNES

Right before leaving for Moscow on Wednesday, Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov declared that the Bulgarian-Russian relations were at their best level in 20 years.

In an interview for the ITAR-TASS news agency, Parvanov pointed out that the campaign "Bulgaria's Year in Russia 2009", which he is going to open, was a continuation of "Russia's Year in Bulgaria 2008" launched about a year ago with the visit of the then Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In his words, these two initiatives will celebrate the deep historical connections in terms of cultural relations and exchange in the bilateral relations but are also going to boost the economic cooperation.

Bulgaria's Year in Russia will be opened with a gala concert in the Bolshoy Theater in Moscow on February 5 but much of the campaign's program will consist of economic forums throughout 2009 including Sofia's Days in Moscow and Varna's Days in St. Petersburg.

When asked about the consequences that the recent natural gas crisis might have on Bulgarian-Russian relations, Parvanov said the crisis had to be analyzed from all sides including in the context of the global financial crisis.

"The mortgage crisis, the collapses of the world markets, the fluctuations in prices of products, metals, energy resources, and the disturbances in the global consumption patterns - all these are related processes... The rate of globalization has overtaken the abilities of the international community to accept normative regulations which could control the dynamics of the world market. The existing international legal system has failed to secure the stability of the international economic relations. The partial cutoff of Russian gas supplies for Europe appears to be just one of the many elements of these common processes", President Parvanov explained.

He has restated his view that Bulgaria was equally interested in the realization of both the Russian-sponsored South Stream, and the EU-sponsored Nabucco gas transit pipeline. He believes both projects have great advantages for Europe and for the Balkan region.

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