Government approves agreement extending military cooperation with Romania
The Government submitted to Parliament for ratification the Agreement between the Governments of Moldova and Romania on military cooperation, signed in Chisinau on April 20, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The agreement expands the collaboration framework established in 1992 between the Moldovan Ministry of Defense and the Romanian Ministry of National Defense, which contributed to the building and development of Moldova’s National Army by training experts and experience exchanges.
By signing the new Agreement, the cooperation spheres in the military domain are expanded. They will include defense policies, knowledge exchange, munitions control, management of budgetary and human resources allotted for defense, the organization and functioning of transmission systems. New collaboration fields include the development of military infrastructure, the use of military firing ranges, the mutual study and analysis of possibilities to perform in common actions of peacekeeping.
The Agreement also set the forms of collaboration: mutual consultation and working meetings, common military drills, exchanges of officers between education institutions.
The financing of cooperation activities will be reciprocal.
A joint military committee will be created to implement the provisions of the Agreement.
