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CSAT adopted the National Defence Strategy Guide for 2015-2019

January 7, 2016

The Supreme Council for the Country's Defence (CSAT) at its meeting on Thursday adopted the National Defence Strategy Guide for 2015-2019, a document chiefly aimed at supplying easy-to-understand information both to the institutions, those familiarized with the defence and national security matters and those less knowledgeable about this field. According to a release sent by the Presidential Administration, the information targets the manner in which the state pledges to provide the defence and security of the country and its citizens. The Guide includes a glossary of terms meant to establish a common and easy language for all those interested, it explains certain concepts and terms and the extended national security or the security culture so as to avoid confusion in their perception, it presents the current architecture of the national security system for the attainment of the national strategic objectives promoted by the Romanian National Defence Strategy and proposes a range of landmarks meant to ease the updating of the legal framework on national security, the consolidation of a unified coordination of the sector and assigning a flexible character that should allow the adjustment to the fluctuations of the security climate, the release explained. Part of the Council decisions sought to strengthen the provisions of the National Defence Strategy, a strategic orientation document on the basis of which the CSAT provides the organisation and unified coordination of the activities relating the country's defence and national security, the participation in keeping the international security and in collective defence in accordance with the provisions of the Romanian constitution, the release said.   According to this source,  the members of the Country's Supreme Defence Council (CSAT) have approved on Thursday the armed forces of Romania that could be provided for missions and operations outside the Romanian territory in 2016, namely 1,181 military and 1,530 gendarmes and police officers. According to a release by the Presidential Administration, next year the Romanian armed forces will continue participating in missions and operations outside the country's territory under the NATO, EU, OSCE and UN helm, for two essential missions, namely Romania's and its allies' defence and the regional, global stability's promotion. The main effort will be represented by the participation with forces and means in the NATO mission in Afghanistan - Resolute Support Mission (RSM), concomitant to maintaining its participation in the NATO's KFOR and EU's ALTHEA operations in the Balkans. The forces offered in 2016 by the National Defence Ministry to fulfil missions abroad count for 1,181 military, 158 military more than this year. Out of them, 943 troops could be deployed in the operation theatres, as well as in individual observation and monitoring missions, while other 238 troops will be inside Romania, with the possibility to being deployed if necessary. The Internal Affairs Ministry will offer the EU, OSCE, NATO and UN missions in 2016 some 1,530 gendarmes and police officers, out of whom 1,054 will participate in missions and 476 will be in stand-by and ready to be deployed to order. As compared to 2015, their number is smaller by 91 gendarmes and police officers.   The Country's Supreme Defence Council (CSAT) has also approved in its Thursday sitting the Intelligence Strategy 2015-2019 of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and set the next stages to updating the legal framework on the prevention and combating terrorism. According to a release by the Presidential Administration, the Intelligence Strategy sets the missions and action directions of the SRI, by ensuring the implementation of the National Defence Strategy in agreement with the evolutions of the security environment. The Council's members have also decided the next steps of upgrading of the legal framework regarding the prevention and combatting of terrorism, in order to allow the adaptation of the national capabilities to the new types and levels of terrorist threat, as well as to connect them to the European, international regulations in this matter. Also in this sitting, the Council has analysed and Okayed the budget propositions for 2016 of the institutions with the national security attributions. In the end of the reunion, the CSAT members have approved the activity Programme of the Council for 2016, a document necessary to carrying out the constitutional target of this body, that is to organize and unitary coordinate activities that regard the national security.    

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