President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev said that Bulgaria will work to facilitate the implementation of both the Nabucco West and the South Stream gas pipeline projects, AzerTag state news agency reported.

"I am sure that the Nabucco-West project retains its strategic importance for the European energy policy and has its place on the map of Europe," he said at the 41st Plenary Session of the General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, PABSEC, running in Sofia on July 9- July 11.

The president added that Bulgaria and its partners would continue to work for its implementation.  MORE