A coordination center set up by NATO as part of its recent eastern redeployment is due to open on Thursday morning in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia.President Rosen Plevneliev is to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside James Appathurai, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy. Last year the Alliance decided to build new facilities in six Eastern European member states, including Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. The move was agreed as an element of a wider strategy that includes measures to step up defences at NATO’s eastern flank in light of what some member states describe …read more
Source: Novinite
