International security

This year's largest military exercise on Bulgarian territory, SABER JUNCTION 18, will be held in September and will involve eight NATO countries. The exercise will last for three weeks, and in the scenario, there will be real fighting to push away an unnamed aggressor.

Minister Mihai Fifor evoked, on the first day of the NATO Defense Ministers' meeting in Brussels, the importance of fully implementing the decisions made within the alliance, referring in particular to the need for a coherent approach , at strategic level, of the forward presence on the entire eastern flank, including in the Black Sea region, from the perspective of planning, training,

The United States said it would boycott the June 5 session of the Conference on Disarmament amid fears that Syria is using its presidency of the body to "normalise" the regime.     

Bucharest, May 29 /Agerpres/ - US President Donald Trump is controversial both in the United States as in Europe but, "when you look past the controversy and you put that aside, there is a clarity of purpose in US foreign policy", said, in an interview for AGERPRES, foreign policy expert James Carafano.

Prague. Russia poses no direct threat to the Baltic states but NATO is deploying additional forces there to demonstrate its resolve to protect its eastern flank, Czech General Petr Pavel, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, and former Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan told the Czech Television on Sunday, TASS reports.

According to this, he is "E. Iseni" from Skopje's Aracinovo settlement, who went to Syria when he was 19 years old.

The information about his death, the agency said, was obtained from the family - but the report not specify under whose command Iseni was fighting when he was killed.

Political party "Volya" will start to promote the idea of ​​a referendum on Bulgaria's exit from NATO. Tovaya told the Bulgarian National Radio party leader Veselin Mareshki.

British Air Force Typhoon fighter aircraft based in Romania will join NATO patrol flights in the Black Sea airspace, reports the Royal Air Force UK website.

The official permission was given at a ceremony yesterday in the Romanian airbase "Mihail Kogalniceanu", which is located 50-60 km north of the Bulgarian border.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has reiterated Turkey's importance to the joint defense of the alliance, saying a look at the map is enough to recognize the country's value, amid rising criticism of Turkish actions in the media and in Western capitals.

Romania must improve its road and rail network to ensure the efficiency of NATO operations, the former commander of the United States Army Europe, Benjamin (Ben) Hodges, stated in an interview for AGERPRES.