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Prime Minister Borissov on Bulgaria's Exclusion from Turkish Stream Meeting

Sofia, April 8 (BTA) - Commenting Wednesday on the exclusion of
Bulgaria and Romania from a Turkish Stream meeting in Budapest,
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that there are different
interpretations and voiced a hope that Bulgaria's Euro-Atlantic
partners will make their interpretations too.

Yanaki Stoilov of BSP-Left Bulgaria urged that Borissov
addresses the legislature on why Bulgaria's foreign minister
wasn't invited to the meeting and about Bulgaria's energy
prospects.

Meeting in Budapest on Tuesday, the foreign ministers of Greece,
Serbia, Macedonia, Hungary and Turkey discussed their
countries' participation in the Turkish Stream project. The
meeting adopted a declaration on energy cooperation "to create a
commercially viable option of route and source diversification
for delivering natural gas from Turkey to EU countries."

Borissov said that Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Turkey
are sovereign countries.

Borissov said he had raised with Turkish President Erdogan and
his counterparts Bulgaria's desire to build a gas hub with four
or five gas sources and urgently construct an interconnector
with Greece. Also, Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova is
scheduled to visit Russia.

The Prime Minister said that to date there is no formal
suspension of the South Stream agreement between Bulgaria and
Russia.