ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE COMMENTARY OF THE TEXT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ROMANIA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE UNITED STATES BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM IN ROMANIA PART I: PREAMBLE AND ARTICLES I-IV
ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE COMMENTARY OF THE TEXT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ROMANIA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE UNITED STATES BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM IN ROMANIA PART I: PREAMBLE AND ARTICLES I-IV

Summary/Abstract: The article realizes an in-depth analysis – article by article – of the text of the Agreement between Romania and the United States of America on the Deployment of the United States Ballistic Missile Defense System in Romania, signed in Washington on the 13th of September 2011. Thus, in this first part of the article, the history and the context of the conclusion of the Agreement shall be presented, and the Preamble, as well as articles I-IV, shall be analyzed and commented. The paper highlights the added value of the Agreement from the legal point of view and from the perspective of the national security of Romania (in accordance with the Agreement, by the establishment of the legal basis for the deployment in Romania of a facility of its missile defense system, the U.S. are firmly committed to protect the territory of Romania against missile defense attacks and related threats), and respectively as far as the relevance for the collective self-defense of NATO, as well as for the development of the NATO missile defense system; after the decision of the Chicago Summit to declare the interim capability of the NATO system, the next step towards the development of the Allied system shall be the site in Deveselu, operational starting with 2015, which shall constitute the initial capability of the Allied system. This strategic contribution shall award Romania a meaningful place in the decision-making process at Allied level in respect of this component of the NATO mix of capabilities.

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