site.btaForeign Ministers of Bulgaria, Turkiye and Romania Discuss Black Sea Security at NATO Meeting

Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev and his counterparts from Turkiye, Hakan Fidan, and Romania, Oana Toiu, held talks during the Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, TRT Haber reported on Wednesday.

The three Ministers discussed the importance of security in the Black Sea, freedom of navigation, compliance with international legal norms, and strict adherence to the Montreux Convention. They pledged that the three countries would work in solidarity to ensure that the Black Sea remains a sea of peace, stability, and cooperation.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported the meeting in the context of recent attacks on three ships in Turkiye’s exclusive economic zone, including two tankers belonging to the so-called Russian shadow fleet. Ukraine took responsibility for an attack by seaborne drones on two empty tankers heading towards a Russian port but denied any involvement in the incident with the third vessel, AFP said.