Bulgaria: Economic Relations Between Bulgaria and UK

A file containing documents concerning economic relations between Bulgaria and the United Kingdom. Subjects covered in the file include efforts to agree the establishment of an Anglo-Bulgarian joint commission; the European Economic Community's preclusion of bilateral quota negotiations by member states after the end of 1972; difficulties created by the Bulgarian attitude in bilateral negotiations; and a Bulgarian complaint at the "disparaging attitude" of British officials. Other subjects discussed in the file include a visit to London by the Bulgarian deputy foreign minister, Kiril Nestorov; a proposal that the first meeting of the joint commission should be held in London in February 1973; the possibility of a trade minister, Lord Limerick, leading the British delegation at the first meeting of the joint commission; and the repeated Bulgarian insistence on discussing generalised preferences. Documents in the file include the official letters and notices, in English and Bulgarian, establishing the Anglo-Bulgarian Joint Commission.