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Bulgaria to participate in expansion of NATO Air Command, Control Systemr

Xinhua, April 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Bulgarian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum for the country's participation in the expansion of the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS), officials said.

According to the memorandum, which was signed in January by NATO, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, the particular ACCS projects would be determined by the relevant committees of the Alliance, the government said in a press release.

The ACCS projects were expected to be implemented in Bulgaria in the period of 2015-2018, with the total value of around 12 million euros (some 12.68 million U.S. dollars), the government said.

Bulgaria, a NATO member since 2004, has been defending the Alliance's airspace by performing NATO air policing duties with its Soviet-made MiG-29 and MiG-21 fighters. Endit