Bulgaria does not see a need for deployment of NATO troops on its territory as a response to Russia's troop build-up near the border with Ukraine, its defence minister said on Tuesdayç APA reports quoting Reuters.
Stefan Yanev confirmed reports that within NATO different response options, including establishing a military alliance presence in Black Sea NATO members Bulgaria and Romania under its "Enhanced Forward Presence" mission are being discussed.
NATO has used that mission to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland.
"My position is that such a debate, respectively an approach, has the potential to lead to an undesirable increase of tensions in the region," Yanev said a Facebook posting.
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