Within the framework of efforts to develop a food emergency plan that boosts agriculture (https://bit.ly/2YMw3Yx), the minister of agriculture, Abbas Mortada, met with the Bulgarian Ambassador to Beirut to discuss agricultural cooperation. Both sides agreed to complete a memorandum of understanding that supports the exchange of expertise to this effect, specifically in the field of livestock and grain growing. Discussion also touched on common cultural matters and the possibility of holding joint cultural events in the near future. (Al Diyar, June 17, 2020)