President Rosen Plevneliev is in Munich to take part in the 51st Security Conference. “All participants in the Munich conference are extremely concerned about the fact that the EU-Russia relationships are developing in the direction of lasting instability and deterioration, which no one is willing to allow. The next days will be decisive,” the Head of State commented on the occasion of his participation in the top-level forum. The conference in the capital of Bavaria will be take place in the context of the crisis in eastern Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, created by the actions of the Islamic State group.

“In the past 25 years Europe has been writing history – we expanded our democracies, we strengthened them, we guaranteed human rights and freedoms. However, today we will again have to defend our values and if we fail to write our history ourselves, someone else will do that instead of us. At these difficult times we must go back to our values, not to settling scores and serving interests, we must support any reasonable action which ensures more peace and stability in the region and the world and restores the rule of law,” the President further said.

Rosen Plevneliev is the first Bulgarian Head of State who will take part in the conference as a keynote speaker. On the second day of the conference, 7 February, the President will make a statement in the debate on the topic of “The conflict in Ukraine and security in Europe,” together with his counterparts from Finland Sauli Niinisto, from Lithuania Daliya Grybauskaite and Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. The debate will start at 16.30 Bulgarian time. “Bulgaria’s principled position on the conflict in Ukraine exerts influence. I will voice this position also tomorrow from the highest rostrum at the current forum” President Rosen Plevneliev further said in Munich.