/ world today news/ President Rosen Plevneliev’s speech to the European Parliament is yet another provocation against our national security and peace in Europe. This opinion was expressed in an official position by the BSP City Council in Sofia. “Filled with backbends, Plevneliev’s speech ranks the Bulgarian president among the most aggressive propagandists of NATO’s march to the East, against Russia,” the position also reads. Here is her full text:
POSITION OF THE BSP-SOFIA CITY COUNCIL
Socialists and all nationally responsible citizens in Sofia are outraged by President Rosen Plevneliev’s speech to the European Parliament: another provocation against our national security and peace in Europe! Instead of talking about today’s economic and social problems of Bulgaria, with his speech, the Bulgarian president ranked among the most aggressive promoters of NATO’s march to the East, against Russia.
Without any arguments, Plevneliev stated that the Kremlin is against the EU and wants to destroy it from within. Mr. Plevneliev is particularly “outraged” that Russia is talking about a new cold war, that Putin insists on a “new balance in the world”, to replace the unipolar dominance of the USA with a multipolar world in the name of peace and democracy, that he sees a danger to Russia in NATO’s policy to surround the Russian Federation with military bases and anti-Russian regimes in neighboring countries.
Russia is within its right to defend its security. Particularly alarming today is the deployment of the American anti-missile system in Romania and Poland, with the placement of large military contingents in the so-called front-line countries, among which a key role is assigned to Bulgaria.
“For me, for us, Crimea is Ukraine and Ukraine is Europe,” Plevneliev stated in his speech. The fact is that Russia is also Europe. As for Crimea, it is also a European territory, but not only in a geographical aspect, but also as an important part of the destiny, history, culture and dignity of Russia and the Russian people.
The position taken by Plevneliev, “Crimea is Ukrainian”, is not the position of the state of Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a parliamentary, not a presidential, republic. The National Assembly does not have a similar official position on Crimea. It is unacceptable for Plevneliev to present his personal views as official for our country.
It is not by chance that Plevneliev’s dictionary lacks the word “sovereignty”, which should be a cornerstone of our national foreign policy. At the same time, in his speech, he isolated a number of EU member countries because they do not accept the instructions of the Washington-Brussels bureaucracy to continue the sanctions against Russia. Are Italy, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and France “gravediggers” of the European Union?
Such behavior on the part of the head of state makes us hostages in the relations between the West and Russia. It torpedoes the possibilities for constructive relations between Bulgaria and Russia, harms the national interests of our country. The Bulgarian economy needs Russian markets, Bulgarian tourism needs Russian tourists, and Bulgarian industry and domestic consumers still have no alternative to Russian gas. Bulgaria and the Bulgarian people are primordially connected with Russia – historically and culturally.
The city council of the BSP-Sofia categorically opposes the anti-Bulgarian, bordering on national treason position of President Rosen Plevneliev.
With the upcoming election campaign for president and vice president, we call for the beginning of a constructive national dialogue in the name of a new, dignified and working foreign policy for Bulgaria.
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