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Officials of the Ministry of National Defence will participate to all the ceremonies organized for the joint of Romania to NATO, thus:
Ioan Mircea Pascu, minister of National Defence will be present Monday, March 29, 04 together with the delegation of the Prime Minister of Romania to the ceremony for laying the instruments for joining the North Atlantic Treaty organized in Washington. This occasion, Mr. Ioan Mircea Pascu will meet and talk with Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence.
April 2, 04, minister of National Defence together with George Cristian Maior, State Secretary and chief of Department for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Defence Policy will participate in Brussels to the festivity for hoisting the national flags of the seven new NATO members.
General Dr. Mihail Popescu, chief of the Romanian General Staff together with the chiefs of services will participate to the military ceremony organized at SHAPE, Mons, Belgium in April 15, 04. A photo-documentary exhibition on evolution of the military institutions of the states recently received within NATO will be organized after the ceremony of tuning the national hymns and the hoist of the national flags.
MoND Press Office