NATO Summit Romania has established an operational command center and improved the status of the multinational brigade

NATO Summit | Romania has obtained operational command center

"NATO's new command and control structure has been approved – more flexible, adapted to strategic realities – in its revised form it will be better able to meet the needs regional and general In order to better manage the defense of the entire Euro-Atlantic area, the Summit documents mention, in this context, the offer of Romania to host a structure in its territory. of the NATO army corps as part of the force structure in the region if necessary, allowing then allied actions for this purpose, "said a press release from the presidential administration handed over to MEDIAFAX.

President Klaus Iohannis talked about things in Romania at the NATO summit in Brussels, an operational and improved command center

"This year, in this attempt to strengthen the presence of the I & # 39; NATO on the eastern flank, we achieved two things that I consider very important.We obtained a 3-star command center, an operational command center, as our specialists have explained, being a command center between the lowest tactical level and the highest strategic level, an important center … We believe we will eventually have, when the center is completed, about 400 senior officials from all NATO countries who want to be with us. Secondly, we have an improvement, an upgrade, the status of the multinational brigade that we have put in place, which multinational brigade now has permanent status. Let's negotiate with other allies for a stronger presence within this multinational brigade. Here are two results we can be proud of, "said Klaus Iohannis, head of state, on Thursday in Brussels at a press conference, that Romania will increase the number of personnel in this country to more than 950 in 2019.

"This was a session dedicated to Afghanistan. Here, I can tell you that we have committed for the first time to CSAT and today we have passed to allies that we will increase the number of personnel in Afghanistan, as we have now, 770 and some people, especially military, we will reach 950 next year, which will also be military, and gendarmes, and of course civilian personnel, "explained Iohannis.

Regarding the allocation by more than 2% of GDP for defense by Romania, Iohannis said that "price", but it is a complicated discussion because of the sums of the state budget allocated to the health system and to Education

Regarding the existence of a conflict in NATO and the danger of dissolution of the North Atlantic Alliance, the head of the Romanian state explained that US President Donald Trump was not aggressive at the Brussels summit, but that he "has "said things by name".

US President Donald Trump said that NATO countries should end up allocating 4% of defense GDP, suggesting a doubling of the 2% target previously set at the top of the 39, NATO in Wales in 2014.

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