Jens Stoltenberg

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg held a telephone conversation late on Feb. 1, during which they discussed the alliance's current and future agenda.

NATO is of extreme importance to Bulgaria and Sofia backs all defense and deterrence effort of the alliance, President Rumen Radev has said.

Radev has made the remark during a visit to the NATO headquarter in Brussels, on the second day of his first foreign trip as head of state.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and European Parliament President Antonio Tajani met on Monday evening as part of Radev's visit to Brussels that continues Tuesday.

Radev's press office quotes Tajani as saying Bulgaria meets all requirements to join the Schengen area without border control, but the decision has to be taken with consensus from all members.

President Rumen Radev, who is on his first working visit to Brussels, has held talks with the President of the European Council Donald Tusk.

After the meeting, Radev announced that Tusk promised greater aid for the security of Bulgaria's borders.

The unity of the EU, security and the migrant crisis were among the topics discussed between Radev and Tusk.

President Rumen Radev will begin his first foreign trip as head of state on Monday, leaving for Brussels for talks with EU and NATO officials.

Radev, a former Air Force commander, will fly on board a military transport plane instead of the government-owned Airbus in order to cut costs, the presidency's press office says.

The visit will continue through Tuesday.

BELGRADE - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has dismissed concerns that the U.S. Senate may not ratify the NATO-accession agreement for Montenegro.

Speaking on January 26 alongside Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Stoltenberg said, "I am confident that the accession protocol will be ratified by the [U.S.] Senate."

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Jan. 24 called for boosting security cooperation with the Gulf states as the Western military alliance opened its first office in the region.

DAVOS - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic met with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn and Austrian FM Sebastian Kurz in Davos on Friday.

DAVOS - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic met with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Davos on Thursday.

Vucic and Stoltenberg spoke on the fringes of the World Economic Forum meeting.

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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the phone, and met with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Davos.

B92's Filip Cukanovic said these conversations regarded the situation in Kosovo and relations in the region, as well as "ways to solve the problems that have piled up."