Bulgaria urges NATO to increase support for Ukraine
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev met with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Bulgarian President expressed his support in continued assistence of Ukraine by the North Atlantic Alliance. The decision about the further assistence will be made at the Warsaw NATO summit in early July.
"During the meeting of NATO defense ministers, it was decided to increase support for Ukraine. We expect that this support will be approved at the NATO meeting in Warsaw,” said Plevneliev after talks with the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, in Sofia on Thursday.
As Poroshenko said after the meeting, Bulgaria will become the leader of the NATO Trust Fund for treatment of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were wounded in the Donbas.
According to Poroshenko’s press service, a number of bilateral documents on cooperation in various spheres have been signed during the negotiations of the countries’ delegations.
In particular, an agreement between the Bulgarian Academy of Science and the Ukrainian State Space Agency on cooperation in the framework of the space experiment Ionosat-Micro on the Mikrosat-M spacecraft was also signed.
The NATO summit is scheduled for July 8-9, 2016 in Warsaw.