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Bulgaria remains among 6 candidates for OECD membership

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Bulgaria is determined to become a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD. This is what Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Svetlan Stoev has told the OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann in Paris. Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds Atanas Pekanov and Minister of Finance Valeri Belchev also took part in the talks at the annual meeting of the OECD Council.

Mathias Cormann congratulated Bulgaria on the clear progress made in preparing for OECD accession and encouraged the country to continue to fully implement all OECD standards based on the values ​​of democracy, open market economy, rule of law and human rights.



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