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

Vigenin said Wednesday "the evidence is not categorical" that Hezbollah planned the attack in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city last year.

International media commented that the Balkan country has now “backed away from charges” that the Shi'ite Muslim militant group had carried out the attack.

On Thursday, Vigenin discussed key European issues, including the potential blacklisting of Hezbollah’s military wing, with Ireland’s Ambassador to Bulgaria John Rowan.

He declared that Bulgaria “has not revised its stance” on the July 18 terror attack in Burgas which killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver.

“Bulgaria is ready to join a consensus decision made by EU – and it is our responsibility to lay down a solid basis for that. That is why I requested that our foreign partners speed up the process of gathering additional evidence,” the Foreign Minister noted.

In February 2013, 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 the terror attack at the Burgas airport.

Tsvetanov’s center-right GERB government was seen as a staunch ally of Washington.

Vigenin’s left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party reacted strongly to Tsvetanov’s “reasonable assumption” back in February, accusing GERB of rushing to implicate Hezbollah without proof and exposing the country to possible new terrorist attacks.

Blacklisting Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist group requires a unanimous vote by the 27 EU Member States.