30 June 2016 | 17:05
The Presidents of Bulgaria and Ukraine Rosen Plevneliev and Petro Poroshenko unveiled a monument of the great Ukrainian poet, writer and public figure Taras Shevchenko at the Vazrazhdane square in Sofia. Taras Shevchenko is a symbol of today’s independent Ukraine. Shevchenko’s deed and fate are a confirmation of the common historical fate the Bulgarian and Ukrainian people share, Rosen Plevneliev said in the solemn speech he delivered.
30 June 2016 | 16:04
Bulgaria and all NATO member states from the Black Sea region seek guarantees for their security only within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Every initiative which we will support can be realized only within NATO and we seek namely such solutions. This is what Head of State Rosen Plevneliev said at a joint news conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko.
30 June 2016 | 14:02
Head of State Rosen Plevneliev reconfirmed Bulgaria’s clear, firm and principled support for the European future of Ukraine during the talks he held with the President of the country Petro Poroshenko, who is on a one-day official visit to Bulgaria. The visit is the first a Ukrainian president has made for the past 15 years. Bulgaria welcomes the process of reforms in key sectors of Ukraine’s public and political life, including conducting a constitutional reform, and also the efforts put in fighting corruption, which the Ukrainian president briefed the Bulgarian Head of State on.
27 June 2016 | 17:05
After the referendum in Great Britain, the EU should be strengthened and get a new dose of trust. We should avoid the worst crisis – the moral one, President Rosen Plevneliev said, who held talks with French President Francois Hollande today. The Head of State is on an official visit to the French Republic. In President Hollande’s view, the European project should be protected from the insecurity after the referendum held in the UK.