Bulgaria, Turkiye and Romania discuss Black Sea security at NATO meeting

Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev and his counterparts from Turkiye, Hakan Fidan, and Romania, Oana Toiu, held talks during the Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, reported BTA.

The three ministers emphasized the importance of security in the Black Sea, freedom of navigation, and compliance with the Montreux Convention. They pledged that the three countries would work in solidarity to ensure that the Black Sea remains a sea of peace, stability and cooperation.

Agence France-Presse reported the meeting in the context of the attacks on three ships in Turkey’s exclusive economic zone, including two tankers from the so-called Russian shadow fleet. Ukraine took responsibility for an attack by seaborne drones on two empty tankers heading towards a Russian port but denied any involvement in the incident with the third vessel, AFP said.

During the meeting, Turkiye’s Foreign Minister, quoted by Reuters, described the attacks on the tankers as “very worrying.”

Edited by Ivo Ivanov

Translated by Kostadin Atanasov