site.btaBulgarian Armed Forces Modernization Does Not Match Contemporary Challenges - President Radev
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131 POLITICS - NATIONAL SECURITY - CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL
Bulgarian Armed Forces Modernization
Does Not Match Contemporary Challenges -
President Radev
Sofia, February 15 (BTA) - The pace of modernization of the Bulgarian Armed Forces does not match contemporary challenges, and the projects to upgrade the armed services are not implemented in a balanced way, President Rumen Radev said on Tuesday, emerging from a five-hour meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security (CCNS). The meeting discussed the risks and the threats to Bulgaria's national security and the state of its Armed Forces.
It was also attended by Parliament Chair Nikola Minchev, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, Defence Minister Stefan Yanev, Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov, Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Evtimov, representatives of the parliamentary groups and the security services.
The President went on to say that the implementation of the agreement to acquire eight US F-16 jet fighters for the Air Force has been delayed. The procedure for the acquisition of combat vehicles for the Land Forces has been cancelled, he added.
The CCNS participants rallied around the view that mounting tensions in the Black Sea region, ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Asia, international terrorism and migrant flows pose major challenges to Bulgaria. The countries in the region are allocating ever larger resources to re-arm with new types of weapons and develop innovative defence technologies. The process of acquiring new capabilities and maintaining high-tech armed forces is ever more tangible, the President said. LN/VE
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VE2002ES.131
131 POLITICS - NATIONAL SECURITY - CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL
Bulgarian Armed Forces Modernization
Does Not Match Contemporary Challenges -
President Radev
Sofia, February 15 (BTA) - The pace of modernization of the Bulgarian Armed Forces does not match contemporary challenges, and the projects to upgrade the armed services are not implemented in a balanced way, President Rumen Radev said on Tuesday, emerging from a five-hour meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security (CCNS). The meeting discussed the risks and the threats to Bulgaria's national security and the state of its Armed Forces.
It was also attended by Parliament Chair Nikola Minchev, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, Defence Minister Stefan Yanev, Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov, Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Evtimov, representatives of the parliamentary groups and the security services.
The President went on to say that the implementation of the agreement to acquire eight US F-16 jet fighters for the Air Force has been delayed. The procedure for the acquisition of combat vehicles for the Land Forces has been cancelled, he added.
The CCNS participants rallied around the view that mounting tensions in the Black Sea region, ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Asia, international terrorism and migrant flows pose major challenges to Bulgaria. The countries in the region are allocating ever larger resources to re-arm with new types of weapons and develop innovative defence technologies. The process of acquiring new capabilities and maintaining high-tech armed forces is ever more tangible, the President said. LN/VE
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