UN Impressed by Our Country’s Efforts to Prioritise Western Balkans during Bulgarian EU Council Presidency
26 April 2018 News
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Miroslav Jenča described Bulgaria’s efforts to reinvigorate EU attention to the Western Balkans as a key foreign-policy achievement of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Jenča made this assessment when he conferred on Wednesday with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri Sterk. This bilateral meeting concluded the Bulgarian diplomat’s three-day working visit to New York.
Earlier in the day, Deputy Minister Sterk held talks with his Greek counterpart Terens-Nikolaos Quick. They focused on the Western Balkan countries’ European perspective.
A day earlier, Sterk addressed the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Development Cooperation Forum. He pointed out in his speech that under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda all States that supported the document share a responsibility to mobilise external, international, public and private resources for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Bulgarian diplomat stressed the commitment assumed by all States that nobody will be neglected in implementing the agreements, as well as that assistance to the most vulnerable countries will be prioritised in order to eradicate poverty.
Also on Tuesday, during a UN General Assembly debate on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, Sterk presented the Bulgarian contribution and efforts to this end, including the voluntary financial support for the UN mediation and prevention efforts in the Western Balkans.
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