site.btaPrime Minister Makes Bulgaria's Position for NATO Washington Summit Available to MPs

Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev said on Monday that he will send Bulgaria's position for the upcoming NATO Washington Summit to the classified information registry of Bulgaria's National Assembly later in the day, and every MP will be able to read it. He dismissed as "absurd" allegations that the cabinet may be pushing Bulgaria into war. "There is nothing in it that is different from the positions and the resolutions of the National Assembly," he added.

Glavchev explained that before a NATO meeting each member state usually makes its proposals available to the rest, but the proposals are classified and there is no way for it to be otherwise.

On June 28, the Council of Ministers said that the Bulgarian position it had approved for the NATO Summit in Washington (July 9-11) reflects in full Bulgaria's national interests and reaffirms the country's consistent support for Ukraine at national and Allied level. The position is totally aligned to the resolutions of the National Assembly, it said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Glavchev will lead the Bulgarian delegation to Washington after President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Rumen Radev declined the government's invitation to head the national delegation. NATO usually invites both the head of state and the head of government of each country to its summit meetings. In the case of Bulgaria, it is up to the Council of Ministers to decide which one of the two gets to lead the national delegation.