On his first visit to Brussels as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairsin the caretaker government, Marin Raykov held talkson 27th March 2013with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Defence Ministers made progress on improving NATO’s capabilities and interoperability and took stock of the mission in Afghanistan during their two-day talks at Alliance headquarters in Brussels.

Today it is important to start a political discussion in the European Union on what measures should collectively be taken to prevent similar attacks in the future, said Minister Nickolay Mladenov, and added that whether Hezbollah should be added to the list of terrorist organisations would not be discussed at the Council meeting.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nickolay Mladenov, and the Minister of Defence, Anyu Angelov, today took part in a regular meeting of the Interdepartmental Council on the participation of Bulgaria in NATO and in the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union.

Trust is the key to relations between NATO and its partners

Nickolay Mladenov: Bulgaria will continue its firm support for Georgia’s integration into NATO and the EU

a historic moment

The Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to NATO Ambassador Todor Churov met with six of the participants – students at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, representing the “Bulgarian Delegation” to NATO during the MoNYS.