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Friday, May 14, 04 General Ph.D. Mihail Popescu chief of Romanian General Staff met at the MoND headquarters the delegation headed by Lieutenant General Zlatan Kirilov Stoykov chief of Bulgarian Army Main Staff.
During the meeting, General Popescu evoked the very good relations between the Romanian and Bulgarian Armed Forces and suggested the start of a complex program of cooperation at Army level for a rapid integration of the two Armed Forces within NATO. “In the past we had very good and we will continue to cooperate. We joined together the Alliance and together we will join the European Union” stated General Popescu.
General Stoykov paid an official visit in Romania between May 11 and 14, 04 invited by Lieutenant General Ph.D. Eugen Badalan, chief of Army Staff. The Bulgarian delegation visited the Army Academy in Sibiu, the Simulating Training Center in Bucharest and observed the demonstrative exercise in Cheile Risnoavei at a Mountain subunit in Predeal.
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