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Romanian Social Democrat Leader Wants Energy And Agric Ministers On Supreme Defense Council

Romanian social democrat presidential candidate Mircea Geoana said Monday he will propose the amendment of the law on the Supreme Defense Council to include provisions on energy and food security, with the participation of the minister for energy and minister for agriculture.
Romanian Social Democrat Leader Wants Energy And Agric Ministers On Supreme Defense Council
02 nov. 2009, 11:31, English

Geoana suggested the setting up of a Ministry for Energy and Resources, to handle energy issues and look after Romania’s remaining resources, which it must use more efficiently.

„I will propose inviting the minister for energy and resources and the minister for agriculture to the Supreme Defense Council, so we can make sure that these two strategic aspects and vulnerabilities will always be on the president’s mind,” Geoana said in a debate on economic topics, set up by Forum Invest.

Geoana said that if he is elected president, the first step he will take as regards energy security is make sure the future Parliament majority will provide a competent prime minister, finance minister and energy minister.

The social democrat leader also said Romania needs to revise its energy strategy, after the Copenhagen summit on climate change. The new strategy, Geoana said, should be adopted in Parliament as an organic law, so that multi-year financing, co-financing and resource attraction obligations may be mandatory for several successive governments.