KYIV, Sept 17 – Ukraine and Bulgaria have agreed to hold a Ukrainian-Bulgarian business forum in order to accelerate mutual investments and trade, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

"Our trade has exceeded $1 billion, and today we discussed in detail what else we can do to develop business contacts, and so that even despite the pandemic, we have more trade, more ties between businesses and between people. And we agreed to hold a business forum in Bulgaria, which will bring together Ukrainian and Bulgarian businessmen. We agreed to intensify political contacts between our countries at all levels. We have signed a plan of consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Bulgaria," Kuleba said at a joint briefing with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva in Kyiv on Thursday.