CSAT approves 2021 budget proposals for defense and security institutions

The Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) approved, on Friday, the budget proposals for 2021 for the institutions with duties in the field of defense and national security. The CSAT meeting, chaired by President Klaus Iohannis, took place in a special video-conferencing system. "During today's meeting, the budget proposals for 2021 of the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of the Interior, the Romanian Intelligence Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Special Telecommunications Service and the Protection and Guard Service were submitted for analysis, budget proposals that were approved favorably by the Supreme Council of National Defense," informs a press release of the Presidential Administration. According to the cited source, the approved amounts ensure the responsible fulfillment of the planned activities and the institutional functionality in view of accomplishing the specific missions and assumed objectives, through the prudent management of the allocated budgetary resources, in the context of an unstable international security environment, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which generates changes on all levels of society. "Romania's National Defense Strategy for the period 2020-2024 places the citizen at the center of the action of institutions with duties and responsibilities in the field of national defense and national security. Any solid security architecture also requires the provision of human, material and financial resources to offer consistency and the credibility to our collective effort to provide citizens with the conditions necessary to lead a better, safer life," the Presidential Administration said. The government is to meet in session to approve the state budget and the state social insurance budget draft laws for this year.AGERPRES(RO - author: Florentina Peia, editor: Mihai Simionescu; EN - author: Simona Iacob, editor: Maria Voican)