Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has arrived on a visit in Moscow to meet with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and discuss many aspects of the bilateral relations and the opportunities for intensifying them.

Mladenov pointed out that Bulgarian-Russian relations are of strategic interest and do not include energy issues only. During the discussion over the South Stream gas pipeline project, Minister Mladenov announced that Bulgaria had already prepared the documents for studying the underwater route of the future gas pipeline in the Black Sea.

The two ministers agreed that the difficulties that the Belene NPP project is facing should not acquire political overtones. They also discussed the issue of archives that, following the end of the Second World War, were taken outside Bulgaria and are now in Russia.