Defence Ministry

President Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday had talks on the state budget and the 0.3 per cent of the GDP additional allotment to the Defence Ministry, the Presidential Administration informs.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Kosovo's Minister of Return and Communities Aleksandar Jablanovic has said that the coalition agreement Srpska signed with the ruling parties in Kosovo states that the Association of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) will be formed in the first 5 months of 2015.

Military and religious ceremonies have started this morning at all military facilities in Romania and at such facilities abroad where Romanian troops operate to remember eight soldiers who died in a recent military helicopter accident.

President-elect Klaus Iohannis, Defence Minister Mircea Dusa, Chairman of the Sibiu County Council Ioan Cindrea and Sibiu Prefect Ovidiu Sitterli on Sunday joined the commander and comrades of eight soldiers who died in a military airplane accident on Friday, lighting candles and sending condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.

The two servicemen wounded in the air crash that took place in Sibiu County will be brought with a military C-27 J Spartan aircraft from Targu Mures to Bucharest, a release of the Ministry of National Defence remitted to AGERPRES informs.

BELGRADE - Poland sees the Serbian Armed Forces as a leading and key plater in protecting stability in the region and beyond, Poland's Chief of the General Staff General Mieczyslaw Gocul said in Belgrade on Wednedsay.

Montenegro plans to deploy troops in the EU mission in the Central African Republic, a country torn by ethnic violence between Muslims and Christians.
 
By year-end, Montenegro will send several staff officers to the command of the EU operation, known as EUCAR, in the capital, Bangui, BIRN has learned.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic and French Ambassador to Serbia Christine Moro discussed on Monday ways of improving the military cooperation between the two countries.

Gasic and Moro agreed that defence relations were good and provided an incentive for other EU countries to view Serbia as a reliable partner.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Saturday at Carei that the Government is under an obligation to secure for the Romanian Armed Forces all the conditions for them to successfully conduct their missions.

BELGRADE - A commemoration was held on Monday for the Yugoslav Partisan and Red Army troops who died in the battle for Belgrade's liberation from Nazi occupation, which ended in victory on October 20, 1944, 70 years ago.

Minister for War Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin and Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali laid wreaths at the cemetery dedicated to Belgrade's liberators.