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A military delegation headed by General Dr. Mihail Popescu chief of the Romanian General Staff will pay an official visit between March 9 and 11, 04 in France invited by Army General Henri Bentegeat,chief of General Staff of the French Forces.
The two officials will talk on the stage of training of the Romanian Armed Forces for joining NATO and the mutual interest issues having in view the future transformation of the North Atlantic Alliance. They will discuss on the European component of defence and the Romanian part will present the contribution of the state and the Armed Forces to counter-terrorism campaign and the decisions taken in this respect by the Romanian authorities.
They will analyze the military cooperation between the two Armed Forces and its increase in future time.
The agenda of the visit also consists in meeting with Brigade General Andre Rene Var, chief of the Euro-Atlantic Division from the General Staff of Defence and Marc Perrin De Brichambaut, chief of Delegation for Strategic Affairs (counterpart of the State Secretary for Defence Policy) and they will visit military objectives from France.
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