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Bulgaria is undertaking a decentralization process and the Swiss experience can be very useful for us, said President Rosen Plevneliev, who held talks today at 2 Dondoukov Boulevard with the President of the Council of the cantons in the Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation, Hans Altherr.

After they have met the criteria for membership of the Schengen zone, new EU member states should be admitted and then participate in its transformation. This was highlighted today at a meeting in Paris between Vice President Margarita Popova and the President of the Group for Friendship with Bulgaria in the Senate of the French Republic, Yves Pozzo di Borgo.

The common cultural and spiritual heritage shared by Bulgarians and Russians is the foundation on which to develop relations between the peoples of the two countries. This was emphasised by President Rosen Plevneliev and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, who met today at 2 Dondoukov Boulevard.

I hope that Bulgaria’s boxers will distinguish themselves at the Olympic Games in London, President Rosen Plevneliev said today, at a meeting at 2 Dondoukov Boulevard with the President of the International Federation of Amateur Boxing (AIBA) Ching-Kuo Wu and the President of the European Boxing Confederation, Dr Humbert Furgoni.

President Rosen Plevneliev has expressed Bulgaria’s gratitude for the decision by the Moldovan government to restore funding to the Taraklia region.