Ministry of Defence

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) reported on Tuesday that 27 Romanian nationals were still in Afghanistan after 16 managed to leave one night previously. "In the early morning of August 17, 16 more Romanian nationals left Afghanistan.

Ljubljana – The parliamentary Culture Committee reviewed the report of the Broadcasting Council for the past year at a session on Monday, including the council’s recommendation to set down sanctions for fake news in a law. Some of the participants in the debate maintained that would be in contravention of the freedom of speech.

The Ministry of Defence has awarded public contracts without competitive tender designating the contractor directly.

The parliamentary ad hoc Committee on detection of abuses and violations in the spending by the Council of Ministers, the Ministries, the state authorities, the state-owned enterprises and companies with more than 50 per cent state participation in the last 10 years has submitted 22 signals for corruption and financial abuse to the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bulgari

Montenegrin soldiers on the training in a military camp near the town of Danilovgrad. Photo: Montenegrin Government

The Ministry of Defence said it had abandoned the plan to send a platoon of 30 soldiers to Kosovo, announced by the former government, led by the Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS.

Bulgarian Air Force aircraft will carry out low-flying practice flights over Alexander Nevsky Square in capital city Sofia on May 5 ahead of the following day's Armed Forces Day, the Ministry of Defence said.

Serbia's Defence Minister, Nebojsa Stefanovic, was questioned on Thursday in the investigation into a former high police official, Goran Papic, who is suspected of returning a seized car to a member of the crime gang of Veljko Belivuk, who was recently arrested .

The Belgrade Higher Prosecution Office confirmed Stefanovic's interrogation took place but did not give out any details.

Bucharest, April 4 /Agerpres/ - The North Atlantic Alliance, together with the European Union and the Strategic Partnership with the United States of America, ensures the strongest protection that Romania has benefited in its entire history, in the face of any threat to its national security, the Minister of Np[9ational Defence, Nicolae Ciuca said on Sunday.

The Russian embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Wikipedia. Photo by MrPanyGoff, Creative Commons.

"The two diplomats had carried out activities in the country that are incompatible with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," the Foreign Ministry stated.

Two panels of the Sofia Military Court will decide whether to keep in custody the five members of an espionage group which gathered information in favour of Russia. Six people were detained during a raid on Thursday, but one of them presented a confession and was let out on bail.