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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister calls for not politicizing the Vezhen ship case

Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev
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The Bulgarian State Agency for National Security has no data that among the Bulgarian crew members of the Vezhen ship detained in Sweden there are agents of foreign services or perpetrators of criminal acts, the director of the agency Plamen Tonchev announced during a hearing on the subject in parliament.
He specified that the data from Bulgaria’s partner services does not contain information that the incident with the fiber optic cable torn from the ship was an act of sabotage. Tonchev added that in addition to the cable used by Latvia, a cable of a country hostile to NATO was also cut in the same area.

“Bulgaria is in no way viewed by our partners and allies as complicit in sabotage or subversive activity, which we all condemn, against which we all, as partners and allies, are working,” Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev told parliament. He called for the case of the Vezhen ship not to be politically escalated.



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