Agreement between Belarus and Bulgaria on friendly relations and cooperation.

The Parties have agreed to promote cooperation in the sphere of environmental protection and environmental improvement, prevention of transboundary pollution, reduction of accidents and natural disasters and the liquidation of the consequences thereof, rational management of natural resources, solution of global ecological problems, especially in Europe, and in consideration of the scale of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, shall cooperate on bilateral and multilateral basis for the minimization and liquidation of the consequences thereof. The Parties shall pledge to inform each other timely in case of radioactive, chemical or biological threat (art. 11). The Parties shall undertake the necessary steps for the intensification of cooperation in the energy sector and in particular as regards the utilization of energy saving technologies (art. 12).