29.02.2020
"There is zero migration at the moment at our border. Nothing is different from one, two, three years ago. Bulgarian citizens can be calm, that our sailors and border guards are on their posts." This was announced by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov before media outlets in Plovdiv regarding the situation in Syria and the migrant situation in the territory of Turkey. The Prime Minister emphasised that there was no threat to Bulgaria from a new migrant wave.
Prime Minister Borissov noted that the Minister of Interior was at the Bulgarian-Turkish border yesterday, and today the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense will look around the helicopter area above the Greek border, because there is the main point of tension at the moment.
"There is no normal person who can allow to be acted with force against women and children," Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said. He said that the humanitarian crisis in critical areas of Syria is currently severe. "Nearly one million people, families alive like us, children, have no water, no food, the weather is cold and that's why they run away," Prime Minister Borissov added.
He recalled that he had telephone conversations yesterday with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, with the Greek and Croatian Prime Ministers - Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Andrej Plenković, as he had spoken twice with the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and twice with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Bulgarian Prime Minister emphasised that our country has decided yesterday to support Turkey in NATO and was one of the countries who acted most urgently on the subject.
"But we love our neighboring Greece and we want to help them in every possible way. I am not authorized to speak on behalf of the EC, but huge sums of money are currently being redirected to the Red Crescent to deal with the humanitarian crisis," Prime Minister Borissov explained.
The Prime Minister told reporters in Plovdiv that a major meeting in Bulgaria is being prepared, which will be to decide on the situation in the region. "On Monday, I will go negotiate with Erdoğan his terms so we can consistently resolve this process - both with the return of the migrants, with the hostilities in Syria, with this humanitarian crisis, and with NATO’s intervention," Prime Minister Borissov said. He pointed out that next week everything must be done very quickly until Wednesday-Thursday at the latest, to feed Turkey with the necessary resources so it is able to take care of the refugees again.
