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This morning, immediately after the simultaneous ceremonies for hoisting the national flag of Romania at NATO HQ in Brussels, and NATO’s flag at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, the ministry of National Defence Ioan Mircea Pascu and General Dr. Mihail Popescu, chief of the Romanian General Staff inaugurated the videoconference system installed at Ministry of National Defence, respectively at the Romanian Representation at the North Atlantic Alliance in Belgium.
In the system by which the MoND leadership has the possibility to transmit orders and receive reports, are also included the Romanian detachments in missions in the theaters of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
Starting the date of the laying of instruments of ratification in Washington DC, the Transmissions System of the Romanian Armed Forces (STAR) and the Service of Air Police were connected to the similar ones of NATO so that the protection of the air space and the secretization of communications of the Romanian Armed Forces with the North Atlantic Alliance are ensured.
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