Bulgarian PM: We Will Not Request Labeling Hizbullah 'Terrorist Organization'
Interim Bulgarian Prime Minister Marin Raykov announced on Saturday that he will not take any steps to encourage to European Union to impose sanctions on Hizbullah after it has been accused of being behind the July 2012 Burgas attack.
"Bulgaria will evaluate the facts and we will leave the decision to our European partners,” Raykov said in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio.
"We will not demand placing Hizbuallah on the list or terrorist organizations”.
The Bulgarian government accused Hizbullah in February of being behind a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian.
"We have information on financing and membership of Hizbullah for two people including the bomber," Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov had said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the Bulgarian findings, saying that they should push the EU to draw the "necessary conclusions" about the group, hinting it should be placed on a terror watch list.
The bombing on a bus carrying Israelis at Burgas Airport on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004, also killed the Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber. Some 30 people were wounded.
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