Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Sofia capital on early June 5 (Vietnam time) to commence first ever official visit as head of the Vietnamese Government to Bulgaria at the invitation of his counterpart, Boico Borisov.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (blue tie) was welcomed at the airport (Photo: VNA)

He is scheduled to meet and hold talks with Bulgarian leaders and businesses to promote economic, trade and investment cooperation between the two countries, as well as meet with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Bulgaria.

The visit is to maintain, reinforce, and expand bilateral collaboration in traditional fields such as education-training, culture, tourism, science-technology, security, defence labour and cooperation at local level.

Bulgaria was among the first 10 countries to establish diplomatic ties with Viet Nam (February 8, 1950).

Two-way trade reached 88 million USD last year. Viet Nam mainly exported garment-textile, footwear, coffee, pepper, tobacco, coal and seafood while importing chemicals, medicines, wine, machine, shipbuilding equipment, and animal feed from the market.

(Source: VNA)