Greece was negotiating with Bulgaria electricity transit through its territory from a third country.

The negotiations come in an attempt to resolve Greece's electricity shortage, Greek deputy minister of development Anastasios Neratzis said during a business forum on finance and energetics in Sofia.

Another opportunity was importing electricity from Bulgaria for a short-term period when possible, Neratzis said as quoted by mediapool.bg.

Greece, which is the biggest electricity importer from Bulgaria, suffered electricity shortages since Bulgaria closed two units of Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP) on December 31 2006. Bulgaria had to close the units as a pre-condition for the country's EU accession on January 1 2007.

A work group of Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEC) and Greek DEPA would seek opportunities for electricity transit, mediapool.bg said.

Economy and Energy Minister Roumen Ovcharov said that Bulgaria would do its best to continue exporting electricity to Greece.

During the forum Bulgaria's President Georgi Purvanov and Ovcharov brought up the matter for Kozloduy NPP units re-opening, but Greek representatives said that Greece would cope with the electricity shortage in the current situation.

Albania is the only country in the region, which called for reconsideration of the reactor closure.