EU’s Foreign Ministers are likely to add Hezbollah’s military wing to the body's list of designated terror organizations, high ranking Israeli Foreign Ministry officials have said, according to Israeli media.

The officials said Britain and the United States are pressing several EU countries that are reluctant to back such a move, Haaretz says.

Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin on Sunday convened a special meeting at the Foreign Ministry to discuss efforts to include Hezbollah on the EU’s list of terrorist groups. One senior Foreign Ministry official said EU institutions are expected to conduct several meetings on the matter in the coming days.

For the designation to be made, a unanimous vote of all 27 member states is required.

In February 2013, Bulgaria’s then-Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov suggested that the evidence collected by the investigating authorities led to a "reasonable assumption" about the involvement of the Lebanese militant group in last year’s terror attack at the Burgas airport.

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin recently refuted reports that the country was trying to shift blame for the Burgas terror attack from Hezbollah.

Vigenin said on June 5 that "the evidence is not categorical" that Hezbollah planned the attack. International media then commented that the Balkan country had “backed away from charges” that the Shi'ite Muslim militant group had carried out the attack.

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