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Bulgarian services show high professionalism during anti-terror training near Plovdiv

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Currently Bulgaria does not face a real terrorist threat, Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Rumiana Bachvarova announced after the anti-terror training held at Plovdiv Airport. The Bulgarian services showed high professionalism. We have to find ways to optimize the overall organization and avoid additional tension among the population, Minister Bachvarova further said. All participants at the anti-terror training showed good coordination and exchanged information in a prompt manner, the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Georgi Kostov said. Nearly 300 people from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior, the State Agency for National Security, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Healthcare, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office and the Special Counterterrorism Unit with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior took part at the training.




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