Azerbaijan’s defense minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria in Azerbaijan Nikolay Yankov, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a message July 9.

Bulgaria is interested in Azerbaijan’s investments in its gas distribution network, the Bulgarian Energy Ministry told Trend.

Azerbaijan will meet 25-30 percent of Bulgaria’s gas needs in 2020, Rosen Simitchiev, adviser to energy minister of Bulgaria, said June 13 at the international conference titled “Southern Gas Corridor and Energy Security in South-East Europe” in Baku.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Nikolay Yankov, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a message on June 5.

Energy Minister of Bulgaria Temenuzhka Petkova will visit Azerbaijan in June, the Bulgarian embassy in Baku told Trend on May 21.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has sent a congratulatory letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Former President of the Republic of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov has congratulated Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

Azerbaijan entrepreneurs may be interested in making investments in Bulgaria’s tourism sector, Tourism Minister of Bulgaria Nikolina Angelkova said in an exclusive interview with Trend.

Azerbaijan must establish control over its entire territory, rather than only 80 percent, Bulgarian ex-President Rosen Plevneliev said at the 6th Global Baku Forum March 15.

Bulgaria is working to modernize its railways for full participation in the projects of the Silk Road participating countries, Head of the Committee on Transport, Information Technology and Communications under the Bulgarian National Assembly Halil Letifov said.