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The importance of resilience as a priority domain for the consolidation of cooperation with NATO, with emphasis placed on combating hybrid threats, was one of the topics approached by Minister Nicolae Ciuca at the informal meeting of Defence Minister from member-states of the EU, which took place Thursday and Friday, in Lisbon, informs a release of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) sent, on Friday, to AGERPRES.
Minister Ciuca emphasized the importance of resilience and combating hybrid threats, including disinformation, cybersecurity and defence, military mobility, as well as reducing the critical dependencies on suppliers outside the EU and NATO space.
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The Ministry of National Defence (MApN), through its Medical Directorate, is expanding the vaccination method, without prior appointment on the electronic platform, in all military hospitals in the Romania from Saturday.
According to a press statement released on Friday, people over the age of 60 who want to get vaccinated and have valid identity documents will be able to go, starting Saturday, directly to the vaccination centres operating at the 11 military hospitals operating under MApN s authority - Bucharest, Brasov, Cluj, Constanta, Craiova, Focani, Galati, Iasi, Pitesti, Sibiu and Timisoara from 14:00hrs to closing time.
The general population up to the age of 60 who wish to get vaccinated without an appointment will be able to do so at the same centres after 14:00hrs and to closing time, agerpres.ro confirms.
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Approximately 15,000 military, of whom 10,000 Romanians and 5,000 from 17 NATO allied and partner states, participate, as of Tuesday and until mid-June, in 16 training grounds and other military facilities in Romania, in the most complex training activity since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic - Dacia 21 Livex series of exercises, led by the Joint Forces Command of the Defense Staff.
The participating countries with training and combat techniques for the training series are Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the United Kingdom, Rep. of Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, the USA, Turkey and Hungary, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) informs in a press release.
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The vaccination centers of military hospitals in Brasov, Bucharest, Cluj, Constanta, Craiova, Iasi and Timisoara are open, starting Tuesday, 8:00 AM, for the general population that wants to immunize against COVID, people being able to turn up at any time, without prior appointment, agerpres.ro confirms. The Ministry of National Defence is participating in the national vaccination effort for the general population against COVID-19 and, through the Medical Directorate, disposed measures to extend the functioning program to 24/24 h, for a week, in the May 4 - 11 period, at first, in the vaccination centers organized by the Bucharest Central Military University Emergency Hospital in Bucharest and the military health units in the country which are regional storage centers for vaccine doses, the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) informs.