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By stopping gas deliveries Moscow aims at overthrowing the government, PM Petkov says

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"Bulgaria does not depend on Greece's decisions about their payments for Russian gas. We have contracts." This is how Prime Minister Kiril Petkov answered a reporter's question after the opening of an office in Sofia of the Bulgarian-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pursued two goals by stopping gas deliveries for Bulgaria. The first was to see if this country would accept payments in rubles and thus become the first country in the EU where a breach could be made. If Bulgaria opposed the Russian blackmail, the second goal was very high gas prices that could make the Bulgarian government fall, the PM said.

Asked about his position on North Macedonia, PM Petkov said he could not make a decision alone and that a position was result of the joint work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the coalition council and parliament.


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