Bulgaria, Romania and Greece sign intentions to build military mobility corridors

Bulgaria’s Minister of Defence, Atanas Zapryanov, and his counterparts from Greece, Romania, North Macedonia, Albania and Italy signed letters of intent to build harmonised corridors for military mobility. This happened at the NATO summit, the Defence Ministry said on July 11.

One of the corridors is between Italy, Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria within the Pan-European Transport Corridor No 8, and the other is between Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.

The corridors will contribute to enhancing NATO's deterrence and defence capabilities, cooperation between the countries in the field of military mobility, strengthening transport connectivity between them as a key factor in boosting the region's economic development, as well as deepening NATO-EU cooperation, the defence ministry said.

Outside the official programme of the summit, the defence ministers of Bulgaria and Romania also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of a headquarters of the Regional Special Operations Component Command. The HQ will carry out the planning, command and control of the Alliance's Special Operations Forces for the Black Sea region. The establishment of the HQ will contribute to strengthening the deterrence and defence capabilities of NATO's South-Eastern flank.

Caretaker Minister Atanas Zapryanov participated in the NATO Summit in Washington together with Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov and Deputy Minister of Defence Adelina Nikolova as part of the Bulgarian delegation led by the caretaker Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitar Glavchev.