Bulgarian PM Starving before Dinner with Obama in Prague

Bulgaria's PM Borisov (left) has a busy schedule on Thursday - opening a kindergarten (including meeting with local people in Sofia - pictured), meeting with power utilities' managers, and flying off to Prague for a dinner with US President Barack Obama.

“I am hungry,” stated Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov when asked by journalists what he expected from the working dinner with US President Barack Obama Thursday night.

Borisov is among the leaders of 11 Eastern European states – Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia – who have been invited to a dinner with the American President, who went to Prague for the signing of the renewed START treaty with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister is likely to be the only one to have a brief tet-a-tet conversation with the US President since the Eastern European leaders will be presented to Obama one by one, according to the alphabetical order of the represented countries where Bulgaria comes first.

Earlier on Thursday, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said the agenda of the dinner of Barack Obama and the Eastern European leaders will be topped by the question about the creation of a US missile defense in Europe, the Iranian nuclear program, and the situation in Afghanistan.