The headquarters of the NATO Headquarters Multinational Division South-East (HQ MNC-SE) started, on Thursday, its activity in the Sibiu Garrison, occasion on which the commander of this military capability, Lieutenant General Tomita Catalin Tomescu, announced that a few hundred servicemen will be present, and starting with 2022 the foreigners from the Alliance's structures will also arrive.
"We have just arrived at your garrison. We have many things to do. We have a long way to go before we get to the final capability. We have to build and rebuild, remake, two military bases here, one for us, one for the support regiment. We have to acquire the super performing communication system with which we need to lead, if need be, the structures that we will have under our command. Furthermore, we must increase the staffing in numbers. Next years the foreigners will come. The community in Sibiu must help us to accomplish all of this. (...) We are a few hundred men that come here, not many are from the garrison or the area. There are many of us coming to do our jobs. (...) Sibiu already has a calling card, we're just giving it NATO touch, that's it. We're giving it a NATO touch, we're putting it on NATO's map. You will see the scale and the activities that are to follow," said, on Thursday, the commander of HQ MNC-SE, Lieutenant General Tomita Catalin Tomescu.
The head of the Defence General Staff, Lieutenant General Daniel Petrescu, emphasized that the "moving of the command in Sibiu is, without a doubt, a strategic decision for the geographic positioning of this capability."
"Since establishment and until today, when we are participating in the ceremony on the occasion of the redeployment and commencement of command in the Sibiu area, large part of the military agenda was build depending on the events of this Command: activation in the NATO military structure, obtaining the status of international military command, accomplishing the initial operational capacity. Moving the command to Sibiu is, without a doubt, a strategic decision for the geographic positioning of this capability. On the other hand, knowing the cultural wealth of the city, as well as the hospitality of its inhabitants and the beauty of the area, Sibiu will prove to be a successful choice for the entire staff of the HQ," mentioned the head of the Defence General Staff.
According to the quoted source, this NATO command will be very important on the Pan-European Corridor IV.
"I can anticipate that, in Romania, after this garrison is placed on the NATO command map, many roads will lead to Sibiu on the Pan-European Corridor IV. Furthermore, I anticipate that the activity of international servicemen will be a win for the local community," showed Lieutenant General Daniel Petrescu.
The ceremony to establish NATO's Headquarters Multinational Division South-East in Sibiu took place one year ago, on July 23, in Cincu (Brasov County).
"One year ago, on July 23, 2020, we met in Cincu, Brasov County, in the establishment ceremony for NATO's Multinational Division South East Headquarters. In the presence of the Romanian President, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, and the Minister of National Defence, Mr. Nicolae-Ionel Ciuca, we participated then in the first stage in a process of concretization of a very important project of Romania proposed to the North Atlantic Alliance, at the 2018 Summit in Brussels. In the context of the demarche to adapt the NATO command structure, our country proposed to the Alliance the development on national territory of a command-control capability, following the necessities to adapt national and allied defensive structures to the unstable security environment in the Black Sea region and the Eastern Flank of the Alliance," the head of the Defence General Staff recalled.
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