Caretaker PM Dimitar Glavchev has met in Sofia with acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security Adam Hunter. During the meeting it was acknowledged that the US remains engaged in the partnership process for Bulgaria's accession to the Visa Waiver Program.
The progress Bulgaria has made in this area, especially in recent weeks, has been acknowledged. PM Glavchev stated that the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry is conducting an information campaign regarding the visa refusal rate which is still high. The Bulgarian prime minister set up a working group to accelerate the measures on the visa issue, a government announcement reads.
Bulgaria still does not meet 3 requirements – technical, the security requirement and the nonimmigrant visa refusal rate requirement.
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Bulgaria is to take part in common procurement procedures in the sphere of defence at an EU level, under projects for the acquisition of IRIS-T air..
“There is no change, Bulgarian troops are not going to be sent to Ukraine,” said PM Rosen Zhelyazkov in a comment about the meeting between US..
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