Bulgaria PM Borisov Set for Obama Meeting in 2009

Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, spoke to the United Nations late Saturday night, underlining the major issues for Bulgaria. Photo by DarikNews

Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov is set to hold a meeting with US President Barack Obama at one of the international forums they both attend before the end of the year.

Bulgaria Foreign Affairs Minister, Rumiana Jeleva stated that the two leaders are most likely to sit down and talk at one of the many international forums they are set to attend in 2009, bTV reported Tuesday.

Jeleva was speaking after returning from the US where she outlined Bulgaria's global and regional priorities during the debates of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Jeleva confirmed that she and her team had made some “very intensive contacts” during the UN New York gathering. She added that by the end of the year she will visit the US Congress to discuss the abolition of US visas for Bulgarian citizens and that she will point out what is being done by the new center-right GERB government to fight organized crime and corruption.

Jeleva concluded by suggesting that it would be beneficial to all if, in the context of reforms in the UN, an Eastern European country is given a permanent place on the UN Security Council.

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