National Council for the Study

Bucharest Court of Appeal admitted on Friday the action started by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) and decided that former President Traian Basescu collaborated with the communist-era secret police known as the Securitate. The decision is not final.

Former President Traian Basescu stated, on Thursday, at the Bucharest Court of Appeals (CAB), that no student of the Navy Institute went willingly to the counterintelligence officer, but that they were called.

Romania's Attorney General Augustin Lazar said on Monday he is neither a commissioned, nor a non-commissioned officer or informer of the late Securitate political police or any other secret service. He told a news conference that he wanted to make a series of remarks out of respect to his colleagues and to truth, a value he said has always guided his life and professional activity.

The National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) decided on Thursday to recheck Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar as regards the quality of worker or collaborator of the communist Securitate political police, given the information and the new elements that were debated in the press.

The archive of the National Council for the Study of ?Securitate' Archives (CNSAS) will contribute to a museum of Communism in Romania, says President Klaus Iohannis. He wants a more thorough study of recent history and reconciliation with it.

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