Romania denies accepting U.S. nukes from Turkey baseAugust 18, 2016 - 17:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Romanian foreign ministry, MAE on Thursday, August 18 dismissed claims that the U.S. has started transferring nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania amid tensions in relations between Washington and Ankara, the Balkan Insight reports. “The MAE firmly rejects this information,” the ministry said in a press release, without elaborating. Defense Minister Mihnea Motoc said such media reports were mere speculation and “so far there have not been any plans or discussions [among NATO members] on the issue.” The statements came after website Euractiv reported on Thursday morning that more than 20 B61 nuclear weapons were being moved from Turkey’s Incirlik air base to the Deveselu base in Romania. According to one of the two anonymous sources quoted by Euractiv, “U.S.-Turkey relations had deteriorated so much following the [recent attempted] coup that Washington no longer trusted Ankara to host the weapons”. NATO said however that U.S. allies must ensure that “all components of NATO’s nuclear deterrent remain safe, secure, and effective”. In Romania, analysts said they doubted whether the transfer would happen. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |