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Nato should at its next ministerial meeting consider its format for Afghanistan, Bulgarian Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov said on January 3, responding to reports in December that US President Donald […]
Bulgaria’s government has approved a plan to celebrate 15 years of Nato membership in 2019, along with the 70th anniversary of Nato’s foun ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held talks on December 15 with US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on issues including security, energy ...
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has reiterated his stance that the creation of the army of Kosovo is ill-timed. “Today, the institutions in ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov expressed hope on December 14 that the offer to supply his country with US-made F-16s would be improved “because I’ve talked with the pilots and […]
Russian and Ukrainian naval forces have clashed in the Black Sea. Though the region lies on Nato’s weak southeastern flank, the alliance is unlikely to intervene in an area where […]
The European Union has called on Russia and Ukraine to “act with utmost restraint to de-escalate the situation immediately” while Nato has urged “restraint and de-escalation”, following soaring tensions over [&hellip ...
At an emergency meeting late on the night of November 25, the Military Cabinet passed a resolution to impose a martial law in Ukraine in the wake of an attack […]
Forty-one Bulgarian military personnel are taking part in Nato’s exercise Trident Juncture 2018, the main phase of which begins in Norway on October 25. The exercise is the largest of […]
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry is again set to spend millions of leva on overhauling ageing Soviet-made military aircraft, offering a tender that envisages paying up to 82.51 million leva (about 42 […]
