During her official visit, the Director-General will hold meetings with the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Mladenov, Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov, Mayor of Sofia Jordanka Fandakova, as well as prominent Bulgarian intellectuals.

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This means that, even if we accept the optimistic forecast provided by the Ukrainian government itself, the country would still be importing about 1, 850 billion cubic feet a year, more than the combined 2008 natural gas imports of Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary (which are cumulatively about 1, 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas for a population of about 93.5 million).

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Eleven countries from south-east Europe were represented at the Forum: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, and observers from Spain, United Arab Emirates and Switzerland.

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He visited Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic as part of the congressional trip.

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These extra-budgetary resources were generously granted by Bulgaria, Cyprus, Flanders (Belgium), Hungary, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.

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Ministers and high level officials, experts of science, higher education and research from 11 South East European countries will participate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.

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The conference will comprise museum directors and experts from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey.

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