Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán visits Sofia on same day as China's Wang Yi
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Anita Orbán meets Bulgarian counterpart Velislava Petrova in Sofia on Monday, Bulgarian-Hungarian Friendship Day.
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Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Anita Orbán is visiting Bulgaria on Monday for talks with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova at the Foreign Ministry in Sofia. The ministry said the talks will cover bilateral cooperation and current European and international issues.
The two ministers will then open an exhibition at the ministry at 10:50 a.m. on the history of the Lajos Kossuth House Museum in Shumen. They will also lay wreaths at a memorial plaque to St. Ivan of Rila in the St. Sofia Basilica. The visit falls on Oct. 19, Bulgarian-Hungarian Friendship Day, which was declared ten years ago.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is also in Sofia on Monday for an official visit. According to Bulgarian National Television, he will meet Prime Minister Rumen Radev and Petrova. The visits come six days before Bulgaria's Oct. 25 presidential election.