Тенденции в развитието на външноикономическите отношения на България с Египет - средата на 60-те - началото на 70-те години на ХХ век
Tendencies in Development of International Relations between Bulgaria and Egypt - Middle of 60-ies – Beginning of 70-ies of XX Century

Summary/Abstract: The documents from the Archives of the Bulgarian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the ruling communist party provide a rich base for a detailed study of the foreign-economical activities of Bulgaria with the Near East during the Cold war period and in particular with one of the main partners of the Eastern block in that region - Egypt. The article attempts to clarify the strategic aims of the Bulgarian economic policy in respect of Egypt. In the context of the leading tendencies of bilateral nature, the study marks the fundamental problems of the Bulgarian energetic needs in the examined period, the efforts on Bulgarian part to offer as a main export commodity the products of its civil machine-building as well as the building of Bulgarian kind of light industry factories, aiming a longer-term target - favorable development in the modernization of the Bulgarian economics which was organized and technologically shaped as a soviet project. The article traces the process of strengthening of the positions of the products of the military-industrial complex as a main feature of the Bulgarian export for Egypt, which despite all expectations didn.t guarantee the Bulgarian economic interests.

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