HC Deb 20 March 1991 vol 188 cc156-7W
25. Mr. Amos

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will meet the Bulgarian Ministers of Trade and Industry to discuss ways of increasing British assistance to Bulgaria; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Sainsbury

Within the past few weeks I have met Mrs. Todorova and Mr. Daskalov, two of the three Bulgarian deputy Ministers of Foreign Economic Relations. The Government are providing assistance to Bulgaria through the IMF and the European Community and bilaterally via the know-how fund administered by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. My Department will continue its efforts to stimulate trade and investment, supplemented by the support of the East European Trade Council whose chairman is visiting Bulgaria this week.