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Walter Kolbow, State Secretary parliamentarian at the Federal Ministry of Defence of Germany, in official visit in Romania met today, Mr. Sorin Encutescu, State Secretary and chief of Department for Parliament Liaison, Legislative Harmonization and Public Relations and General dr. Mihail Popescu chief of General Staff.
The discussions at the Department were focused on the legislative harmonization and the public relations within the two Armed Forces and the evaluation of the perspectives for increasing the military bilateral relations in this domain. Mr. Encutescu thanked to his counterpart for the support granted in setting at disposal certain professors from the Bundeswehr Academy of Communications for lecturing the public relations courses at the National University of Defence.
During the meeting with the chief of the General Staff the present and the future problems of the reform of the military body were explained to the German guest. Mr. Kolbow appreciated the fact that Romania proved to be a strong and to be trusted partner during the process of joint. He stated: ’’In Germany we know the efforts you made for join and the results you obtained you confirmed that Romania is on the right way”. Mr. Kolbow expressed the disposability to continue the cooperation after joining NATO, and suggested the elaboration of a common strategy for three years. The document would be signed at the level of the General Staffs till May this year.
MoND Press Office