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DefMin Motoc: the current regional and global security environment is significantly deteriorated
National Defence Minister Mihnea Motoc stated on Monday in Satu Mare that the current regional and global security environment is significantly deteriorated and more complicated than ever in the recent history.
"We live in a regional and global security environment which is significantly deteriorated and more complicated than ever in the recent history. These things almost need no explanation or demonstration. The people can see it on TV, in the media, in all that we call open sources of information," Mihnea Motoc stated at the debate titled "The Army - fundamental institution of the state. Source of confidence and national pride," which took place on Monday at the theater in Satu Mare.
He added that in the extended area of the Black Sea, near Romania, the recovery perspectives under the security and stability report are " reduced on short term", there are problems in Ukraine, none of the frozen conflicts from Caucasus to Transnistria weren't solved, and the stability in the Western Balkans "hasn't reached the irreversibility point, and the integration project there wasn't concluded."
"Neither Romania nor other countries of the Euro-Atlantic community are affected any longer in terms of security by only what happens in their proximity. Security can't be thought strictly regional," Mihnea Motoc underlined, giving as example the effects that conflicts in Syria and Iraq have on the European region.
The National Defence Minister assured the audience that Romania currently has strong security guarantees.
"We can be confident that currently Romania is under the most powerful security guarantees of its history, the ones given by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership, the ones deriving from the strategic partnership with the Unites States of America, but also from the political shield which gives it the quality of being a member of the European Union (EU)," the minister stated.
Mihnea Motoc mentioned that starting 2017, the Defence budget will be for a decade of at least 2 percent of the GDP, stressing out also that the most important resource is represented by the people.
"The most important resource in which we must invest further because it's a priority is represented by people. By the training that must be increasingly performing so we can keep them in the system until the military profession and career become more attractive. We have prepared, among others, an algorithm which allows both the growth and the rationing of the salary system for military personnel, a system thought to have a manageable budget impact," the National Defence Minister stated.