“No Ukraine to Receive Weapons, Radev Decides to Cut Them Off”

While managing the caretaker government appointed by President Rumen RadevBulgaria will not send weapons such as fighter jets, anti-aircraft missile systems and tanks to Ukraine.

He was adamant about that the head of state Rumen Radev after taking part in a forum organized by The Center for the Study of Democracy on the topic “Anticorruption and National Security”. We remind you that yesterday from Brussels Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov saidthat our country is not preparing to send armaments to Ukraine, for which the European Commission called.

Bulgaria’s decision not to comply with the calls of the EC is “sovereign decision“, the president also thinks.

“Bulgaria will support European diplomatic efforts to restore peace. And while the caretaker government is in charge, Bulgaria will not provide Ukraine with its fighter jets, its anti-aircraft missile systems, tanks and armored personnel carriers,” the president said.

Rumen Radev also called on the partiesappearing in the regular early elections on April 2 – from now on to declare whether they will work for to achieve peace or, on the contrary, to prolong the war.

We recall, a consistent thesis is of the head of state Rumen Radev is that Bulgaria condemns the war in Ukraine, and is for peace and negotiationaccusing the parties that want activity from Bulgaria in supporting Ukraine, that they are warmongers and actually prolong the war and the giving of sacrifices. Until this moment, however, the president Radev did not indicate a specific initiative for peacea proposal for peace talks, without even commenting on Beijing’s 13-point proposal to settle the conflict. So far, calls for peace and negotiations, apart from Moscow, have been heard from China and Brazil.

Like “absolute speculation” President Radev defined the interpretations that followed the leaked report of the Ministry of Finance that the state is facing bankruptcy.

“Absolute speculation. State finances are stable. I have no intention of commenting on speculative interpretations of the election campaign, but I would like to state that the Ministry of Finance keeps state finances stable. I want to congratulate him for securing record collections, for ensuring the annual increase in pensions and salaries,” he said.

The president was also categorical – the claims that there will be a cut in pensions and salaries are speculations. “There are categorical speculations that there will be a change in the exchange rate of the leva against the euro and there will be some new loans from the International Monetary Fund. On the contrary, the state’s finances are stable.

Radev’s qualifications expired report of the Ministry of Finance like “warning“. “This is a warning that if it continues with populist politicsimposed by several previous parliaments, we may eventually reach some of these negative scenarios. At the moment, we are far from them, but it is up to the people’s representatives that this does not happen“, he said. We recall that precisely political populist speaking in the statements of the Ministry of Finance had to be refuted by the BNB.

And it is argued – if the caretaker government at the end of last year had been misled by the calls of the parties to submit a regular budget, it would currently have a fiscal hole of about 10 billion. “Now we would already be talking about these warnings.”