Bulgaria and Slovakia could team up in their efforts to meet NATO requirements, Bulgarian President Parvanov emphasized after talks with his Slovak counterpart Rudolf Schuster. Schuster arrived in Sofia November 27 on a one-day working visit. The cooperation between the two countries will focus on their defence industries upgrade, tight control on arms trade and air force pilots training. We must be ready to give, not only to receive - now as NATO candidate members and later as full members of the Alliance, Schuster said. He confirmed Slovakia's interest in the construction of Danube Bridge II, between the Bulgarian port of Vidin, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Sofia, and the Romanian port of Calafat on the opposite bank. During his meetings with President Parvanov and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Schuster expressed the readiness of his country to take part in the construction of a second nuclear plant in Bulgaria. At a ceremony at Sofia's St. Kliment Ohridski University, President Schuster was awarded an honorary doctor's degree. He opened an exhibition of Jan Kudlicka and Rastislav Biarinec at the Gallery of International Art and attended the presentation of the Bulgarian translation of his book "The Ultimatum".