Today Bulgarian defense minister Nikolay Svinarov arrived in Armenia on a two-day visit. As he told journalists upon his arrival in Yerevan, in the course of his stay a program of Armenian-Bulgarian military cooperation in 2004 is expected to be signed, "which will considerably enlarge" bilateral contacts. The minister reminded that next year Bulgaria will preside at the OSCE, expressing hope for his country to manage to make certain contribution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.