PROVOCĂRI LA ADRESA SECURITĂŢII ŞI STRATEGIEI LA ÎNCEPUTUL SECOLULUI XXI

Romania promotes good relations our neighbors to strengthen and
project stability across NATO’s borders.
One main goal of Romania is contribute to the strengthening of
NATO’s cooperation with partners in the East, such as the Republic of
Moldova, the Ukraine, Russia, and, across the Black Sea, with the nations in
the Caucasus and Central Asia.
The Romanian’s PfP experience could be valuable for the nations
which are situated in The Black Sea Area.
Romania will continue to participate to missions of NATO or to
missions where most of NATO’s members are participating in.
Another important direction is the Romanian participation in the
transformation and adaptation of NATO’s military capabilities, including
the NATO Response Force (the NRF).
Also, it will be adapted Romanian own armed forces to the new
challenges and security environment [17]. The new force structure will be
more flexible and effective, able to provide more deployable and sustainable
forces, as well as to contribute to the full range of NATO missions. By
2007, the Romanian Armed Forces will be an all-volunteer army with a
military strength of 75,000 or below, including land forces, air forces and
maritime forces [18].
Romania is prepared to contribute to Allied land, air and maritime
forces. Some of these capabilities have already been used in multinational
operations, together with troops belonging to NATO nations.
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Security problems:
- China continues to seek a mutually acceptable solution to the
disputed alluvial islands at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri
Rivers and a small island on the Argun River as part of the 2001
Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation;
- the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri,
Shikotan, and the Habomai group known in Japan as the "Northern
Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kurils," occupied by the
Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia, and claimed by
Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty
formally ending World War II hostilities;
- about a third of the boundary with Georgia remains not delimited
and none of it demarcated with several small, strategic segments
remaining in dispute;
- OSCE observers monitor volatile areas such as the Pankisi Gorge
in the Akhmeti region and the Argun Gorge in Abkhazia;
- equidistant seabed treaties have been signed with Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan in the Caspian Sea but no consensus on dividing the
water column among the littoral states;
- Russia and Norway dispute their maritime limits in the Barents Sea
and Russia's fishing rights beyond Svalbard's territorial limits
within the Svalbard Treaty zone;
- Russia continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint 1996
technical border agreement with Estonia;
- the Russian Parliament refuses to consider ratification of the
boundary treaties with Estonia and Latvia, but in May 2003,
ratified land and maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, which
ratified the 1997 treaty in 1999, legalizing limits of former Soviet
republic borders;
- a simplified transit regime was adopted in July 2003 for residents
of the Kaliningrad coastal exclave to travel through Lithuania to
Russia;
- delimitation of land boundary with Ukraine is complete, but
boundary through the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait remains
unresolved despite a December 2003 framework agreement and ongoing
expert-level discussions;
- Ukraine protests Russia's construction of a causeway in the
direction of Ukrainian-administered Tuzla Island in the Kerch
Strait;
- Kazakhstan and Russia will complete delimitation of their interstate
border in 2004 and demarcation is underway;
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