Romanian Intelligence Service

Bucharest, May 29 /Agerpres/ - US President Donald Trump is controversial both in the United States as in Europe but, "when you look past the controversy and you put that aside, there is a clarity of purpose in US foreign policy", said, in an interview for AGERPRES, foreign policy expert James Carafano.

Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said Tuesday that he had sent to President Iohannis for information a memorandum on starting an analysis of the timeliness to relocate Romania's Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

President of the Senate Calin Popescu-Tariceanu stated on Monday that he is not the one who should be asked if the presence of some persons is appropriate or not at an informal event organised by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), adding that he knows how to behave himself.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader wrote in a Facebook post on Friday, in respect to the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) - the Public Ministry protocol, that "it has to be seen to what extent the enforcement of the protocol allowed interferences in fundamental rights and freedoms" and "if and to what extent, by concluding it, the signatories added to the law, substituting the law-maker."

Chief Prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi told AGERPRES on Tuesday that DNA had co-operated with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) before 2013 as well, as requests under the protocol between the two bodies were signed by her predecessor Daniel Morar himself.

The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) on Friday released on its website the protocol of cooperation with the Prosecution Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ) regarding the two institutions' fulfilling their tasks regarding national security.

Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader was in Belgrade on Monday to discuss the extradition of a politician wanted in Romania for graft with his Serbian counterpart, Nela Kuburovic.

The meeting lasted an hour and, according to the Romanian minister of Justice, the two officials discussed Serbia's plans to join the EU as well as "mentioning" Sebastian Ghita's case.

Chair of the National Union of Romanian Judges (UNJR) Dana Garbovan argues that the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) has no powers to check the legality of the protocols between the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and the Public Prosecution Service Ministry but it is under an obligation to request the declassification of such "engineering."

Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar on Tuesday sent the protocols concluded with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) to the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) and Justice Minister Tudorel Toader, informs the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ).

Attorney General Augustin Lazar said on Tuesday, about a request from the Minister of Justice, Tudorel Toader, for the declassification of protocols concluded between prosecution bodies and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), that the Public Prosecution Service will first conduct a legality analysis, and then make a decision.