"Imagine a German reading a tourism ad about Bulgaria with a report on the next page about deployment of heavy equipment. Perhaps Bulgaria has to introduce military tourism and to promote it among Europeans."
Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Mihail Mikov commenting on the government's support for the deployment of heavy weapons to Bulgaria and five other Eastern European NATO states. Socialists have called for the government to shed more light on plans to station equipment which have been marked by controversial positions of Bulgarian officials.