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Tuesday, January 25, 05 Chief of General Staff, General Dr. Eugen Badalan met at the Operational Center of Military Leadership (COCMIL) the representatives of the structures with attributions in crisis management forming the National Committee of Crisis, a body making the decisions within NATO CMX 05 exercise developed between January 26 and February 1, 05.
State Secretaries, directors, deputy directors from the General Secretariat of the Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health, Romanian Intelligence Service, External Intelligence Service and Special Telecommunications Service and chiefs of central directorates from the Ministry of National Defence and General Staff implied in the development of this exercise took part to this meeting. The representatives of the above mentioned structures were informed on NATO System of Response to the Crisis, the national legislation, organization, role and place of the military institutions specialized in crisis management and the attributions of the National Committee of Crisis within CMX 05 exercise.
The participants took part to the inauguration of the COCMIL Leading Point and to an exercise training meeting developed through a video conference system between the General Staff leadership and the Permanent Delegation of Romania to NATO.
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The crisis management exercise annual developed under the patronage of NATO General Secretary is lead by the International Secretariat, the International Military General Staff and the two NATO strategic commands – Allied Command for Operations and Allied Command for Transformation – aiming the maintenance and the strengthening of the Alliance’s capacity in crisis management.
In order to participate to CMX 05 in Romania there will established a National Structure of Response at the Operational Center of Military Leadership from the General Staff. This Structure consists of National Committee of Crisis, the body making the decisions, and the National Operative Center of Crisis, the technical body making the suggestions and applying the political-military decisions. There will be no troops in terrain during this exercise.
The nine NATO partners implied in planning and performing CMX 05 together with the Alliance’s members are: Armenia, Austria, Azerbadjan, Croatia, Swiss, Finland, Ireland, Macedonia and Sweden. As observers to this exercise are the representatives of the UN, EU and OSCE.
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