Global Security Newswire

Bulgaria needs to develop a missile defense system to protect against ballistic and cruise missile attacks, Bulgarian Army Chief of Staff Nikola Kolev said yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 10).

“As a military person I can tell you this problem must be solved,” Kolev said. “If some countries are not dispossessed of their capabilities to build such weapons, we’ll have to build such a system sooner or later,” he said.

Kolev denied, however, recent reports suggesting that the United States was interested in deploying missile defense system in Bulgaria to defend against a possible Iranian attack, according to the Bulgarian News Network.

“This issue hasn’t been raised with Bulgaria officially and no talks on it have been held,” Kolev said (Bulgarian News Network, Oct. 15).