Currently Bulgaria does not face a real terrorist threat, Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Rumiana Bachvarova announced after the anti-terror training held at Plovdiv Airport. The Bulgarian services showed high professionalism. We have to find ways to optimize the overall organization and avoid additional tension among the population, Minister Bachvarova further said. All participants at the anti-terror training showed good coordination and exchanged information in a prompt manner, the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Georgi Kostov said. Nearly 300 people from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior, the State Agency for National Security, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Healthcare, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office and the Special Counterterrorism Unit with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior took part at the training.
On Wednesday there will be scattered clouds, which will thicken up in the afternoon. In the Balkan Mountain and the massifs in south-western Bulgaria, light rainfalls can be expected. The lowest temperatures will be between 8° and..
Bulgaria's inclusion in the US Visa Waiver Programme was discussed at a meeting today between Foreign Minister Ivan Kondov and US Ambassador to Bulgaria Kenneth Merten. "Bulgaria's inclusion in the US Visa Waiver Programme is of the utmost importance and..
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In response to media reports that a company registered in Bulgaria supplied pagers to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, which were subsequently..
Bulgarian Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov takes part in the B9 Defence Ministers Meeting, chaired by Romania and Poland. The forum..
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