Bulgarian PM has phone conversation with US President and head of the Pentagon

Prime Minister Rumen Radev expects the US to request an extension of the stay of US Air Force plane at the Vasil Levski Airport in Sofia. The Prime Minister stated this at the beginning of the government meeting, BTA reported. “The planes are there with the permission of the Zhelyazkov Cabinet with a stay period until the end of May,” the Prime Minister recalled. Radev announced that on May 20 he had a telephone conversation with US Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth, and then with US President Donald Trump. According to him, in the conversation with the US President, he raised the issue of abolishing visas for Bulgarian citizens visiting the US. “I expect this issue to be considered urgently,” the Prime Minister also said.

Editor: Ivo Ivanov