Cabinet Tables Bill for Stationing of NATO Battalion in Bulgaria

Politics » DEFENSE | March 13, 2015, Friday // 20:47
Bulgaria: Cabinet Tables Bill for Stationing of NATO Battalion in Bulgaria Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev. Photo: BGNES

The government tabled to parliament a bill for the stationing of NATO battalion on Bulgarian territory.

The bill, which was adopted at the sitting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, was tabled in the last minutes of the parliament's working day on Friday, daily Sega reports.

The bill is entitled ratification of the Garrison Support Arrangement (GSA) between Bulgaria, represented by its Defence Ministry, and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).


The bill concerns the maintenance of Communication and Information Systems (CIS) Deployable Communications Module (DCM), 2nd NATO Signal Battalion (2NSB).

This comes after it was announced that NATO is to station a command and control centre in Bulgaria's capital Sofia as well as a ship command centre near the seaside city of Varna.

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