Radev: The Presidency has not received a Report on the Russian Diplomats

"The presidential institution has not received a report from the State Agency for National Security (SANS) on the expulsion of Russian diplomats. At the Security Council of the Council of Ministers, held on June 9, which was attended by a representative of the presidential institution, this topic was not on the previously announced agenda. It was raised inside for discussion in principle, but no decision was made on it". This was said by President Rumen Radev to the media after the end of the NATO meeting in Madrid.

He specified that upon the return of the representative of the presidential institution and sharing how the Council went, the presidency sent a letter to the Secretary of the Security Council to the Council of Ministers with a question about the decisions taken. The answer is: No decision has been taken by this council.

"This clearly shows that decisions in the government are apparently taken by some parallel mechanism far from the institutional decision-making path", the president said.

A meeting of the National Security Advisory Council cannot overturn a decision already taken by the resigned government. The body that controls the Council of Ministers is the Bulgarian Parliament. Even if it resigns, the government is still responsible for its actions, the president reminded.

He is adamant that the consequences of this action could be extremely serious, especially for our diplomatic mission in Moscow. But the important thing is that in this way no decisions can be made in the executive branch on such an important issue. The responsibility lies entirely with the executive branch, no matter that it resigned, Radev added.

In connection with the handing over of the mandates and the...

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