Romania's Defense Council To Discuss National Defense Issues Tuesday

The Defense Council will discuss issues targeting Romania's national defense strategy, Romania's military forces and means that can be provided for military missions outside the Romanian territory in 2011, the national strategy for prevention and fight against money laundering and financing of terrorist acts, as well as issues on ensuring the sustainability of public budgets by fighting economic crimes, counteracting the use of «ghost firms» by trans-border organized crime rings and evaluating the situation in Afghanistan by implementing NATO's Comprehensive Strategic Political-Military Plan, the Romanian Presidency said in a press release Monday.

The Defense Council is an autonomous administrative authority entrusted, under the Constitution, with the unitary organization and coordination of activities targeting the country's national defense and security.

Defense Council members include the ministers of national defense, interior, foreign affairs, justice, economy, public finance, the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service SRI, the head of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service SIE, the chief of the General Staff and the presidential adviser on national security issues.

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