Bulgaria–Serbia relations

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Bulgaria has an embassy in Belgrade. Serbia has an embassy in Sofia. Bulgaria is a European Union member state and Serbia is a European Union candidate.

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Both countries are full members of the Southeast European Cooperation Process, of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, of the Central European Initiative, of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative and of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. The countries share 318 km of common borderline.

Bulgaria recognized Kosovo as an independent self-proclaimed country in 2008, which strained relations between the two nations, the two countries enjoy good cooperation in the area of culture, as seen in the examples of co-production of Serbian movies. [1]

History

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A meeting of Radev with Vučić.

Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Sava Rakovski was provided shelter in Belgrade, revolutionary publications were printed in the city and Rakovski's armed group joined clashes against Ottomans in Belgrade in 1862. [2] In 1867, a Bulgarian society, active in Bucharest approached the Serbian state with a draft-agreement. The Bulgarian side proposed the founding of a common Serbo-Bulgarian (Bulgaro-Serbian) dual state called South Slav Tsardom, headed by the Serbian Prince. Serbian Prime minister Ilija Garašanin accepted the Bulgarian proposal in a letter from June 1867, but he diplomatically refused to sign the document, fearing how representative this organisation had been. [3] The establishment of this common state concerned other Bulgarian organisations, which perceived it as an implementation of Garašanin's plan called Načertanije . [4] [5]

In 2018, Serbia and Bulgaria celebrated 140 years of modern diplomatic relations. [6] [7]

Serbian Presidents Aleksandar Vučić and Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov concluded that the opening of the Balkan Pipeline through Bulgaria and Serbia in 2021 was a "remarkable success of the two fraternal states". [8]

the European Union and NATO

Bulgaria joined the EU in 1 January 2007. and Serbia is a candidate country for the EU. Bulgaria joined NATO in 29 March 2004. and Serbia is not a member of NATO.

Resident diplomatic missions

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References

  1. ↑ FoNet, Piše (26 June 2019). "Filmski centar: Bugari finansiraju dva filma iz Srbije sa 200.000 evra". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. ↑ Dejan Djokić (2023). A Concise History of Serbia. Cambridge University Press. p. 284. ISBN   978-1-107-02838-8.
  3. ↑ Papadrianos, Ioannis: "The First Balkan Alliance (1860–1868) and the Bulgarians", Balkan Studies, 42 (2001): pp. 15–20.
  4. ↑ Crampton 1987 , p. 16: "...a Balkan alliance, which alarmed both Bulgarians and Turks with its implications of Serbian expansionism as expounded two decades previously, in Garasanin's Nacertanie, the Serbian equivalent of Greek Megali Idea."
  5. ↑ SANU 1993 , p. 172: "The result of Nacertumje's implementation was the establishment of the first Balkan alliance (1866–1868)..."
  6. ↑ Jovanović, Radomir (20 April 2018). "Srpsko-bugarski diplomatski odnosi: u osvit prvih 140 godina". CMJP (in Serbian). Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ↑ К, А. "Сто четрдесет година дипломатских односа Бугарске и Србије". Politika Online. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Балкански ток изузетан успех две братске државе". Politika Online. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

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