Foreign Ministry in Sofia

Bulgaria advised on Tuesday its citizens travelling to Belgium or staying there to be vigilant regarding potential terrorist attacks.

A total of 26,939 Bulgarian nationals have cast ballots in the country's referendum on the introduction of remote electronic voting, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia announced on Monday.

Bulgaria held the national referendum alongside local elections on Sunday.

Bulgaria will focus on three key areas of interaction in southeastern Europe during its current chairmanship of the regional cooperation initiative, the country's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has said.

Bulgaria pleaded with Croatia on Friday to immediately open the  Bajakovo crossing at the border with Serbia to Bulgarian-registered motor vehicles or redirect them to other operating checkpoints.

Bulgaria on Thursday recommended to its motorists to avoid crossing the border between Serbia and Croatia due to tit-for-tat traffic bans imposed by Belgrade and Zagreb in relation to the migrant crisis.  

Bulgaria on Tuesday warned its citizens to avoid using the main road linking Serbia's capital Belgrade with Hungary's Budapest after Hungarian authorities closed Roszke border crossing for cars and passengers to stem migrant influx.

The Bulgarian authorities have been informed that the Syria-bound Russian cargo aircraft seeking clearance to overfly Bulgaria's territory could have possibly been transporting weapons, Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev said on Tuesday.

Bulgaria on Tuesday confirmed it has denied a request by Moscow to allow Russian military transport planes to overfly Bulgarian territory en route to Syria in the period 1-24 September 2015.

Vladimir Pisanchev can contribute to Bulgaria's cooperation in Greece in tackling the migrant influx through the Balkans, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov told journalists on Thursday.

The Foreign Ministry in Sofia confirmed on Friday that three Bulgarian citizens have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the grim discovery in a truck in Austria, in which the dead bodies of dozens of migrants were found.