700 million BGN costs the participation of Bulgarian military in NATO missions –

/View.info/ BGN 689,177,485 costs Bulgaria the participation of our military in NATO missions. The money was spent during the period of Bulgaria’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty from 2004 to 2014. This is clear from the written response of Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev to a parliamentary question.

For 2015 BGN 23,260,000 has been allocated from the budget of the Ministry of Defense. about the participation of Bulgarian military personnel in NATO operations, Minister Nenchev also wrote. Yesterday, the government authorized the deployment of up to 21 military personnel to participate in NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. The Bulgarian military will carry out the communication and information support of the headquarters of the mission in Kabul from July 1, 2015 to January 30, 2016.

According to a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the first ten years of Bulgaria’s membership in NATO, a total of 12,802 Bulgarian military personnel took part in Alliance missions and operations, of which 2,304 officers, 2,942 sergeants, 7,530 soldiers and sailors, as well as 26 civil servants.

Bulgarian military personnel participated in the operation of the NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the operation of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, in the operation of the International Security Force in Kosovo (KFOR), a NATO training mission in Iraq , in the floating headquarters of the NATO Standing Naval Group off the coast of Somalia, in the international counter-terrorism operation Active Endeavor in the Mediterranean, in the NATO operation “United Defender” off the coast of Libya. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since March 29, 2004.