International security

Minister of Defence Mihai Fifor on Thursday highlighted in Brussels the importance of maintaining the allied commitment to further continue the implementation of the tasks established in Warsaw, on all dimensions related to the resolutions on strengthening the deterrence and defence posture, visibly materialized in the enhanced presence on the field of the allied troops along the Eastern flank.

Deputy Prime Minister for Public Order and Security and Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov is on a working visit to Brussels.

He participates in the meeting of NATO defense ministers. Deputy Prime Minister Karakachanov is expected today to hold talks with US Defense Secretary James Matisse.

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko and Bulgarian Ambassador to Moscow Boyko Kotsev discussed cooperation between the two countries and Russia's relations with the EU and NATO.

The report, cited by Reuters, says that the risk is now higher due to "the erosion of arms control agreements, deployment of additional weapons and tensions over military exercises."

Minister of National Defence Mihai Fifor met on Wednesday with Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Romania Paul Brummell, with the agenda of the talks including topical subjects related to cooperation at bilateral level and under the auspices of the North-Atlantic Alliance, a release informs.

Russia said on Tuesday that it had the right to put weapons anywhere it chose on its own territory after reports that Moscow had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad drew criticism from its neighbors and NATO, Deutsche Welle reports. 

The Romania - NATO expert meeting taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Bucharest is an important stage in the analysis of defence capabilities under the NATO defence planning process, the National Defence Ministry (MApN) said in a release.

Whilst there are no golden ages, it is abundantly clear that the world today is in a very unhealthy state. From Eastern Europe to North Africa to the Middle East, countries, in recent years, have been severely destabilised, resulting in carnage and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of lives.

And at the heart of that destabilisation is American and British foreign policy.

Germany’s caretaker government has said it has decided to put on hold any decision on upgrading German-made tanks in Turkey as requested by its NATO ally Ankara, but Turkey has refuted any freeze.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg indicated on Thursday that there is no plan B for Skopje to join the alliance if it does not resolve its decades-old name dispute with Greece and launch wide-ranging reforms.