Bulgaria is ready to provide every possible resource to support any response to the perpetrators of the terror attacks on the U.S., in the implementation of a general agreement the country maintains with NATO, Foreign Minister Solomon Passi told a news conference after a government meeting last Thursday.

The attack on the U.S. posed new tasks to the international community, according to Passi. The concepts of security and collective security should be revised and changed after these tragic events, and NATO's enlargement should be sped up, Passi said.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Elena Poptodorova specified the readiness for support voiced by the Council of Ministers was within the framework of an agreement between Bulgaria and NATO on transit passage of NATO armed forces and personnel ratified by the National Assembly on April 6, 2001.

No request has been received in Bulgaria for military aid in response to the attacks in the U.S., Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov told reporters on Monday.

On Friday, President Petar Stoyanov and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg paid homage to the victims of the attacks. The Bulgarian government had declared September 14 a day of mourning, thus joining the September 12 declaration of the Council of the European Union, which asked Europeans to observe three minutes of silence on September 14 - a day of mourning in Europe. The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church held a prayer service for the victims of the terrorism at the Alexander Nevski cathedral.

Gergiovden leader Liuben Dilov Jr. and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization leader Krasimir Karakachanov, insisted that a public debate be held on the priorities in Bulgaria's national security, and that the government should quickly work out measures against organized crime and possible terrorist attacks. They said Bulgaria should initiate a Balkan summit to determine the aims in searching for common positions on the fight against terrorism.

Mohamad Fazil Saifi, charge d'affaires at Sofia's Afghanistan embassy, said on Tuesday the U.S. must join forces with Afghanistan opposition against the Taliban.

Stoyanov will convene the Consultative Council on National Security on September 25, announced the office of the president on Wednesday. The council will discuss his proposal to re-examine the national security doctrine against the background of the new challenges to the world after the acts of terrorism.