(VOVworld) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev believes the opening of a Bulgarian economic and trade office in Ho Chi Minh City will offer businesses more chances to expand their Vietnamese and the Southeast Asian operations. President Plevneliev and HCM City People’s Committee Vice Chairperson Nguyen Thi Hong cut the ribbon at the office’s opening ceremony on Thursday. The President described the office as a timely initiative to support the realizing of the cooperative agreements the two countries have recently reached and in directing their relationship towards forming a strategic partnership with a reinvigorated model of economic cooperation. He pledged to ease the entry of Vietnamese goods into Bulgaria and other European countries.  Vice Chairperson Hong expressed her hope that with a strong contingent of businesses operating in various fields, HCM City would contribute to boosting bilateral economic and trade ties.

The President and his entourage toured the Cu Chi underground tunnel network and Ben Duoc Temple later the same day.

Ngoc Xuan- VOV correspondent in Ho Chi Minh City