January 22, 2004 - 17:55 AMT
BULGARIA WISHES TO APPLY NATO AND OSCE BALKAN COOPERATION EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH CAUCASIAN REGION
Bulgaria wishes to apply the experience "of perfect cooperation" gained by the NATO and OSCE in the Balkans to the South Caucasian and Central Asian regions. As reported by Mediamax agency, OSCE chairman-in-office, Bulgarian foreign minister Solomon Passy said at a meeting with NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Brussels. In Passy's words, the idea was accepted by ambassadors of the NATO member states at the latest sitting of the organization Council.