On Tuesday, January 7, Defence Minister Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă, and the Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Daniel Petrescu, met with the Deputy Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John E. Hyten, as part of a previously scheduled visit of the US troops deployed outside the American territory.
Following the decision taken at the North-Atlantic Council at Ambassadorial level to temporarily suspend the NATO Training Iraqi Mission because of the increased tensions from the Middle East, the Ministry of National Defence took the necessary measures to stop the training and counseling missions conducted by the Romanian soldiers deployed in Iraq.
The Ministry of National Defence salutes the endorsement of the Law on the continuation of the development of the air operational capability, as part of the Initial Transition Stage of the Conception for the Gradual Building of the Air Defence Capability, within the “Air Force Multirole Aircraft”.
