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Prime Minister Boyko Borissov met with US Deputy Under Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Boyce. The two spoke in Bled before the start of the strategic forum, reported the press center of the Council of Ministers.
Borissov and Boyce discussed the Three Seas initiative, in which Bulgaria participates together with 11 other European countries. The Prime Minister highlighted the importance of the initiative as a pragmatic platform for trade and economic cooperation. The Bulgarian Prime Minister pointed out the benefits within the initiative of deepening the integration of the countries of the region between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas and creating greater connectivity between them on the North-South line in the field of energy, the transportation, communications and information technology. , deal.
“A further deepening of the trade and economic relations between Bulgaria and the United States will be important in the period of economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic,” Borissov said during a meeting with Matthew Boyce. The Prime Minister noted that Bulgaria and the United States are strategic allies and partners and that cooperation is extremely broad both at the bilateral level and within NATO and the EU-US. Prime Minister Borissov praised the first session of the Bulgaria-US Strategic Dialogue held in Sofia in January. Borissov added that it is very important to maintain the positive sustainable growth trend of bilateral trade between Bulgaria and the United States, as well as attract new direct US investment. There is significant potential for this in the high-tech, outsourcing, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering sectors.
Other issues in the fields of energy, security and defense were also discussed at the meeting.
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