Progress in Armenia-Bulgaria economic cooperation not satisfactory: Armenia’s FM

Armenian-Bulgarian inter-state relations are of multilayer nature, Armenia’s foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan stated today at a joint press conference with deputy prime minister of Bulgaria Yekaterina Zakharieva in Yerevan today.

“Armenia-Bulgaria relations are developing both in bilateral and multilateral formats, making active part in the context of Armenia-EU relations,” Armenia’s minister said.

He said the economic relations with Armenia are actively developing but the progress cannot be assessed satisfactory.

Mnatsakanyan said that two documents have been signed with the deputy prime minister of Bulgaria.

One of them the minister said is the agreement between the governments of the two countries on international automobile passenger and cargo transportations and the other a protocol on applying agreement on readmission of people staying without necessary permission.