Over 2,800 military and 280 combat vehicles with the National Defence Ministry (MApN), the Interior Affairs Ministry (MAI), the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and the Dignitaries' Protection Service (SPP) have marched on Monday in the Constitution Square, central Bucharest, in a parade dedicated to the National Day of Romania.
The commander of this year's parade, Brigadier General Tomita-Catalin Tomescu, deputy of the Instruction and Doctrine Department Chief with the General Staff, opened the parade.
The first unit which entered the roundabout was the Red Scorpions 26 Infantry Battalion, followed by an international detachment formed of military of the French Army, the Republic of Moldova, Poland, Turkey and US marines.
The parade continued with the march of the Calugareni 2 Infantry Battalion, the 495 Battalion of which the intervention forces are, including divers and paratroopers, the Military Intelligence Brigade, the Military Police representatives, the Navy and the Airforce representatives.
The Airforce planes could not take part in the parade due to the bad weather.
At the parade organised by the MApN, together with the MAI, SRI and SPP, were present the incumbent president Traian Basescu and the Prime Minister Victor Ponta, among the participants attending the ceremonies on the occasion of the National Day were also the National Defence minister, Mircea Dusa, the Interior Affairs minister, Gabriel Oprea and the Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, Valeriu Zgonea.
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