PRIME MINISTER BOYKO BORISOV TO MEET WITH TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN

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26.08.2016

26.08.2016
Focus News Agency
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov arrived in Istanbul, FOCUS News Agency reported announced.
Mr Borisov is accompanied by Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov and Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski.
The Bulgarian Prime Minister will meet with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yıldırım.
Later on Mr Borisov will hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
PM Boyko Borisov’s visit to Istanbul is organised at Turkey’s invitation.
FOCUS News Agency recalls:
On Wednesday, during the regular sitting of the cabinet PM Borisov said that the lack of perspective for solution to the migration crisis in the EU forced us to look for partnership with Turkey.
“I do not see any perspective for solution of the migration crisis in Europe. I see how country after country, seized in panic, are saving themselves individually and everyone is finding certain article in the EU Treaty that allows them to do so because even the big countries in Europe are already exhausted and their societies start showing resistance,” Boyko Borisov said.
“We observe all the thousands, and thousands, and thousands of restrictions we have in the EU, and every day we are spending huge resources on feeding, protecting, interviewing for a status every single registered migrant,” Mr Borisov commented further.
He added that the refugee centres in Bulgaria were full and the state should start thinking about the financing of new ones in case the migration flow got more intensive.
“In this situation Bulgaria should try to keep as much pragmatic and friendly relations with its neighbours as possible.
Serbia took out the army, they fenced the border, and there is no exit from Bulgaria. Unfortunately, things do not seem too good in Greece. So, we have to look for partnership with Turkey,” Boyko Borisov remarked.
He explained that “foiled attempts of entering the country” meant migrants returned to Turkey, adding that the number topped 26,000.