A
CALL
TO NATO GENERAL SECRETARY AND THE
DEFENSE MINISTERS OF THE STATE MEMBERS OF NATO
Topic: the existing threat in Romania of the Eastern flank of
NATO
Gentlemen:
Registered in 2009 on the
grounds of Council of Europe’s recommendation no. 1572/2002 Romania’s Union of
Reservist Military (SCMD) is grouping reservist
military belonging to all structures of the Ministry of Defense,
Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Special Services of the country. Most of our
members are former participants in NATO operations in the past, or have
graduated various courses of defense policies in the USA, Canada, and other
NATO member states.
Those who were trained in
the North America were insistently asked: “Why the Romanian military trained in
Moscow or Garmish are then promoted and given command positions, and those
trained in North America, when they get back home, are shifted in the reservist
corps?” Related to this story we can mention an investigation made in Romania
in 2000 by a mixed Canadian-American team.
Connected with a possible
answer to the above mentioned question, we inform you that, beginning the last
month of May, a massive image and psychological war began in Romania and other
parts against the Romanian military structures. We call it a war without
comparison in the past, because the experiment initiated in 2010 by the former
president of Romania, Traian Basescu, was far less dangerous.
In 2010, by a wave of
propaganda lies, only we, the reservists were downgraded, insulted, publicly
slandered, and transformed in socially assisted persons forced to survive on
public mercy. Today, in 2017, are equally aggressed and demonized the military,
the policemen and the reservists.
In 2010 we were aggressed
by only a part of political class and of the media, today they are all
aggressing us. No one wants to admit the fact that those much defamed laws on
military wages and pensions were written in conformity with other NATO member stats legislation and granted by
Romania’s signature on the EU accession treaties. On the contrary, the
politicians and the media stubbornly defend the statutes of the old military
structures, those from the times of the former Warsaw Pact.
The spearhead of this
offensive against the Military and the Police is the minister of Labor.
However, since Jan. 1, 2016 this person has no legal authority whatsoever over
the military system. Since that date it the Military is the job of the
government, namely the Minister of Defense. This is the explanation of the
dismissal of the minister of Defense, Mr. Adrian Tutuianu, exactly in those
days when his people were negotiating at Washington a meeting of the minister with
his American counterpart. The Romanian minister was on his way to do his duty,
against the abusive misconduct of the minister of Labor.
By Unitary Wage System Law
no. 153/2017 the wages of military and policemen were consistently lowered, and
this is now the reason why the young generation is not interested anymore in
these professions. A sample: today, the Chief of General Staff of Romanian Army
has the wage of a ballet dancer at the State Opera, or a City Hall secretary.
As the former Military
Pensions Law was already eliminated by Ordinance 57/2015 imposed upon
ex-government Ciolos by some multinational firms, the reservists were totally
disconnected from the active structures by the Government’s emergency order no.
59/2017 which is stipulating a manifest discrimination compared with the
civilians, and also a double taxation. As this emergency order was announced in
last July, to become active by Sep. 2017, practically the professionals in the
Army, Police, Secret Services, and gendarme have applied to be listed as reservists. Therefore, the
Romanian Army has suffered a true bleeding of men and fighters, thousands went
on pensions till Sep. 14. And on Sep. 14 the Russian Army was out in the field
for the biggest military exercises in the history, on the Eastern flank of
NATO. We consider those emergency orders of the government an unprecedented act
of treason of NATO’s interests, by the disintegration of the Eastern flank of
the Alliance, precisely at the moment of, and in front of a demonstration of
force, a real treat against the Alliance. There are no more functional
structures in the Army, Services and Internal Affairs, as a consequence of
those massive retirements. For instance, from 961 active colonels two months
ago, today are left only 97.
The media insults against
the military structures goes on, the minister of Labor secretly prepares
another new law of unitary system of pensions,
totally at odds with the NATO and EU member states legislation, a new
law which will completely destroy the Romanian military reservist structures
As the Union of
reservists, we continue to perform our duty. We remind you that such
unsuccessful experiments happened in the past in many European states, that in
2010, along with Romania, such a legislation has appeared in Hungary, and the
Hungarian Army took the streets in Fe.-March 2011. At that time our Union got
in touch with our fellow Hungarians, has proposed a joint plan of action, for
the best interest of our both countries, and of NATO, and has organized a
series of street demonstrations and has acted in the Courts.
In an infinite more
difficult situation we will try again to resist today, and respectfully draw
tour attention upon the fact that in case we’ll lose this new battle, and the
new experiment will succeed in Romania, it will infest all other NATO armies
(see the recent resignation of France’s minister of Defense), and the collapse of
NATO will be imminent.
Consequently, we address
you the favour to get in touch with the President of Romania, and the Prime
Minister on the topic of infringement of former assumed conditions, stipulated
in Romania’s Treaty of adhesion to NATO, and also on the matter of the
replacement of European and north-American legislation with one of
Soviet-populist inspiration, one may say worse than the Stalinist legislation.
We believe that the
legislative fluctuation and indecision in the field of Military and Police
fields endanger any NATO strategies and investment in Romania, as it generates
a lack of prognosis for the military and police corps, the ones who have
efficiently collaborated with the Alliance, during their participation in the
NATO missions.
Honor et
patria! Vae victis!
S.C.M.D., Chairman
Col. (r) dr. Mircea DOGARU
