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Panayot Angarev
Correspondent The Standart
Ankara
Christian Kosturkov

I would not permit Bulgaria to have problems with natural gas supplies, Turkish premier recap Erdogan promised to counterpart Boyko Borissov during the joint session of the two governments in Ankara.
Reportedly Erdogan personally forwarded the signing of the agreement yesterday, according to sources from the Bulgarian delegation. In the morning it was not clear whether the Turkish gas company possessed the necessary licence to sign the papers. Later the problems were solved through the energetic intervention on the part of the Turkish PM, for which Borissov expressed his special gratitude.
After his talk with PM Erdogan, PM Borissov announced that a meeting between the PMs of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece had been prepared in order to accelerate the hydro-energy projects Tundzha and Maritsa. Before that PM Borissov will gather in the Black Sea city of Varna PM Erdogan and his Qatar's counterpart at a forum to be held in May on the possibilities for Turkish and Qatari investments in Bulgaria. PM Erdogan bore the new nickname of Bulgaria's minister of Culture - Vezhdi Rashidov who presented PM Erdogan with his sculpture. "Te Big Plus in your cabinet is called Vezhdi Rashidov," Turkish PM stated.