08 mai 2007
Bulgarian ambassador to Serbia lays a wreath at monument to Bulgarian soldiers
| 6 May 2007 | 20:48 | FOCUS News Agency |
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Belgrade. Bulgaria’s ambassador to Serbia Georgi Dimitrov and the military attaché Colonel Krasimir Petrov laid a wreathe at the monument to the killed Bulgarian soldiers at the military cemetery of Belgrade. Bulgarian diplomats and public figures attended the ceremony as well. Petrov told BNR that a reconstruction of the Bulgarian military monuments would start as of this year. There are such monuments in Caribrod, Pirot and Nis. |
26 décembre 2006
Bulgarians to Pay EUR 50 Fee for Passing Through Serbia
Bulgaria's citizens will be able to leave the country with their identity cards only after January 1, but they will have to pay a fee of EUR 50 when passing through Serbia.
Despite the fact that they wouldn't need their international passport to travel within the EU, Bulgarians should carry it anyways, experts warned, because it will take time for all the border officers to get used to the changes.
Orlin Nikolov of the border police has told state BNR radio that the Kalotina Border Checkpoint will employ 40 more officers in the middle of January.
The checkpoint will also start placing new stamps on passports once the country joins the EU, in line with the Union's regulations, he added. Kalotina's reconstruction, funded by the World Bank, will include an additional lane for heavy trucks.
The so-called one-desk system will be introduced by June.
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15 novembre 2006
Bulgaria Steps up Transborder Cooperation with Serbia
Bulgaria's Regional Development Deputy Minister Iskra Mihaylova is in Belgrade in order to discuss the operational programme for transborder cooperation between Bulgaria and Serbia.
The main focus of the meeting will be the debate over the financial plan in the final draft version of the programme.
The draft programme envisages for the period 2007-2013 some EUR 36.9 M to be invested in different projects that are part of the transborder cooperation programme.
Some EUR 31.3 M will be provided by the European Regional Development Fund and through the Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession (ISPA). The other EUR 5.5 M will come from national co-financing.
The programme will aim at improving the access to transport, information and communication services and at achieving stable development of the transborder systems for environment management.
The transborder project will help Bulgaria and Serbia use the infrastructure to cooperate in different sectors like culture, tourism, education and joint regional planning.
The programme encourages mutual understanding by realisation of successful cooperation models between the business and the state in key spheres.
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