Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev is on a working visit to Moscow, BTA reported.

The visit was agreed over the phone Tuesday with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to discuss the ongoing problems with gas supplies to Europe.

The Bulgarian delegation, led by Stanishev, includes Economy and Energy Minister Peter Dimitrov and his deputy, Galina Tosheva, Bulgarian Ambassador to Russia Plamen Grozdanov, and Stanishev's Foreign Affairs Adviser Boyan Chukov.

Bulgarian experts monitoring the transit of Russian gas via Ukraine will also be on board the prime minister's plane.

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