THE PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA

The Public Communication Department
No. 6/29 December 2004


PRESS RELEASE

“The changing of the Romanian President will not bring about shifting processes within the  structures of the Foreign Intelligence Service” , has said, today, the Romanian President, Mr. Traian Basescu, at the end of his meeting with representatives of the SIE command.
The head of state has said that he wanted to meet with the institutions of force of the Romanian state in order to send a comforting signal that “the changing of the President does not mean shattering the systems that have been built thus far” .
The Romanian President expressed his “satisfaction with the SIE reforming level” , but he spelled out that the “SIE is requested to evolve positively in its updating processes” . “I have asked the Service to further on its modernizing processes, to adjust itself to the social, economic and political realities of Romania and, on top of it, the processes that are meant to make it capable of meeting the major exigencies of the Romanian foreign policy, that is: integration with the European Union, strengthening our stand within NATO, so that Romania may become a partner participating in decision-making, rather than a partner taking note of the decision; also, the special relation with the United States and Great Britain is another component of the work by the Foreign Intelligence Service, in compliance with the foreign policy priorities that we have set” , President Traian Basescu said.
The head of state has mentioned that he wanted to know the priorities of each and every Division, and he discussed about the way to establish the intelligence community so that “Romania could benefit, in a short time, from her investments in intelligence information, by treating it in a unified manner, avoiding overlapping activities and, particularly, by producing top-quality syntheses thus affording appropriate decisions at the level of the President of Romania” .
President Traian Basescu has shown that it has “particular confidence” in the SIE and also requested that “the SIE should become one of the pillars capable of making a contribution to the accurate decisions made for the national interest by the President of Romania” .
The head of state has also suggested that the relations established by the SIE with its counterparts in the allied countries should be further developed so that the SIE, in its turn, should become a first-class partner of the most important foreign intelligence agencies in the allied countries. “I deeply wish that the SIE will enhance the so-called synthesis capability, which means a special support by the President of Romania, by the Government, in order to continue equipping this Service so as to make it capable of meeting the exigencies that we expect from it” , has said President Traian Basescu.
“The SIE will always find support with the President of Romania, who is also an extremely exigent person when it comes to the quality of the SIE work” , has said the head of state. At the same time, the President of Romania has conveyed to the SIE command the positive appreciations that he received right after he moved to Cotroceni from various foreign bodies that have been cooperating with the SIE.

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