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Russia on Oct. 26 withdrew its request to refuel a fleet of Russian warships in Spain, amid pressure from NATO, which raised concerns that the ships could be used to ramp up air attacks in Syria.
Vasily Nioradze, a spokesman at the Russian Embassy in Madrid, said Oct. 26 that the request has been canceled, but he gave no details.

Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev is set to attend a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels and sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cybersecurity.

The document will seal the country's commitment to building up defense capacities of national networks and critical infrastructure.

The United Kingdom is a strategic partner to Bulgaria within NATO and an important country on matters of regional and global nature, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has told counterpart Borish Johnson.

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BRUSSELS - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic will visit the NATO headquarters in Brussels in late November to meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the North Atlantic Council, the NATO headquarters officially confirmed to Tanjug on Tuesday.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will in late November visit the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Beta reported on Tuesday that Vucic will meet with the Western military alliance's leaders and discuss "further cooperation between NATO and Serbia."

A NATO spokesperson on Monday described Sunday's parliamentary elections in Montenegro as democratic.

BELGRADE - Serbia has no aspirations to join NATO, which has no wish to "push" it toward membership, James Appathurai, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, has told Tanjug.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that Serbia will never join NATO, because it does not need to, Beta has reported quoting TASS.

"Serbia will never join NATO; that does not depend on the European Union, it depends on Serbia. A decision to join the NATO is a decision to join a military alliance, which is not what we need," Nikolic said during a visit to St. Petersbourg.

BELGRADE - Serbia is pursuing a policy of military neutrality and its authorities are not considering NATO membership, but that is no obstacle to a partnership with the alliance, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Thursday.

BELGRADE - NATO membership will be a central issue in Montenegro's general election on Sunday, with the vote marking the latest episode in a power struggle between Russia and the West in the Balkans, EurActiv.com reports.