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A military and religious ceremony occasioned to the return in the country of the military personnel participating between January and August 2004 to the IV phase of stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq will be organized Wednesday, September 15, 04 starting 07.15 hours at the 26th Infantry Battalion, 99 Caracal street, Craiova.
Ioan Mircea Pascu, minister of National Defence, General Mihail Popescu, chief of the Romanian General Staff , Lieutenant General Eugen Badalan, chief of the Army Staff, Generals and officers will participate to this festivity. Also the local authorities, members of the families are invited to take part to the ceremony.
The festivity’s program consists in troops parade, tuning of the national hymn of Romania, the solemn call, the religious ceremony, the speeches delivered by the officials, parade of the unit and the sign in the Battalion Honor Book.
MoND Press Office