{"id":38,"date":"2024-05-13T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=38"},"modified":"2024-05-13T07:07:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T07:07:17","slug":"romanias-pm-hints-transfer-of-patriot-system-to-ukraine-not-a-done-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s PM hints transfer of Patriot system to Ukraine not a done deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s prime minister, <strong>Marcel Ciolacu<\/strong>, said in the evening of May 12, speaking for Antena 3, that the minister of defense Angel T\u00eelv\u0103r expressed in a discussion &#8220;serious reservations&#8221; about the possibility of Romania giving a Patriot defense system to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the decision is taken together with the president in the country&#8217;s supreme defence council CSAT. We&#8217;re going to make the wisest decision for Romania in the first place,&#8221; said the prime minister, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g4media.ro\/premierul-ciolacu-spune-ca-ministrul-apararii-are-retineri-mari-ca-romania-sa-dea-un-sistem-de-aparare-patriot-ucrainei.html?mc_cid=9443bbb2d7&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G4media.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marcel Ciolacu also said he didn&#8217;t discuss the topic with president Klaus Iohannis after the latter&#8217;s return from the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romania-open-sending-patriot-missile-system-ukraine-may-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president Iohannis mentioned for the first time the idea of giving Ukraine a Patriot system<\/a> and stressed that he was not speaking about the system that is operational at this moment in the country. Romania ordered seven such systems under a contract signed in 2017, out of which a couple are in various implementation stages, and one is operational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/George Calin)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, said in the evening of May 12, speaking for Antena 3, that the minister of defense Angel T\u00eelv\u0103r expressed in a discussion &#8220;serious reservations&#8221; about the possibility of Romania giving a Patriot defense system to Ukraine.\u00a0 &#8220;But the decision is taken together with the president in the country&#8217;s supreme defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}