site.btaBulgarian, Argentinian Representatives Discuss Antarctic Cooperation

The Bulgarian Ambassador to Argentina Stoyan Mihailov and the Rector of the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval University, Fleet Admiral Boyan Mednikarov, met in Buenos Aires with the Commander of the Argentine Navy Fleet, Counter-Admiral Carlos Maria Allievi, the Naval University said. The two sides met before the departure of the Bulgarian representatives to the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island as part of the last group of the 32nd Bulgarian Antarctic expedition. 

Ambassador Mihailov and Fleet Admiral Mednikarov expressed gratitude for the valuable logistical support from Argentina for the Bulgarian polar explorers.   

Ambassador Mihailov invited Counter-Admiral Allievi to join a celebratory programme in Commodoro Rivadavia in the province of Chubut, where the Bulgarian naval research ship Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii will make a stopover in mid-February on its way back to Bulgaria from the Livingston Island. The vessel's arrival is expected to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the town on February 23, 1903 and provides an opportunity to give greater visibility to the historical ties between Bulgaria and Argentina.

Commodoro Rivadavia is home to one of the oldest and most well-organized Bulgarian communities in Latin America with over a hundred years of history, whose cultural society is named after St. St. Cyril and Methodius, just like the Bulgarian naval research ship.

The two sides also discussed the opportunities for Argentina to participate in NATO's Defence Education Enhancement Programme. 

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During the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica, which started on November 8, 2023, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is publishing interviews with Antarctic researchers. The Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA's Log again provides coverage of the voyage of the Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii to Antarctica and back and its stay there, as it did during the 31st expedition between December 27, 2022 and May 2, 2023. Back then, only BTA had a correspondent, Daily News Editor Konstantin Karagyozov, who covered the 127-day expedition with text, video and photos during the entire voyage (including across the Atlantic in both directions) and throughout the stay in Antarctica. In June 2023, BTA published in Bulgarian and in English an issue of its LIK magazine "To Antarctica and Back under the Bulgarian Flag" dedicated to the historic expedition.

Again, all of BTA's information on the Bulgarian scientific research in Antarctica and the support provided by the Bulgarian naval research vessel, as well as on the other activities at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, will be available to all media outlets in Bulgarian and in English on BTA's website in the Bulgaria - Antarctica: BTA's Log section.

BTA has a National Press Club on board the ship and is planning to open a National Press Club at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island.