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Romanian President Traian Basescu said Tuesday on national television that after the interim ministers’ terms will have expired, the ministries will be run be run by state secretaries.

Gelu Drajneanu was appointed interim head of the Romanian Interior Ministry’s General Intelligence and Internal Protection Department (DGIPI) Wednesday, after the department’s chief Cornel Serban was detained by anticorruption prosecutors Tuesday night.

Romanian ambassador in the USA Adrian Vierita and Michael Chertoff Unites States Secretary of Homeland Security, signed Monday a statement on the Visa Waiver program, said a press release posted on the Homeland Security Department website.

The interim prefect of Romania’s capital city Bucharest, Ion Tincu, took the oath Thursday after the government dismissed the former prefect, Catalin Deaconescu, the day before.

Romania’s Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu will propose acting defense minister Teodor Melescanu for a new interim term at the Justice ministry at the end of this week, PRO TV cited liberal sources as saying.