Nato şi România, drumul de la inamici la aliaţi (1949-2004)
NATO and Romania go from enemies to allies, 1949-2004

Summary/Abstract: Romania adopted the USSR’s military doctrine during the process of assuming the model of the Soviet military construction. When they decided to set up NATO, the politico-military alliance called NATO, USSR organized on the other side a comunist alliance, the Warsaw Pact.Romania proved to be a loyal ally to the Pact until 1958. In a secret NATO document called “The Dowen Danube Operation”, there appears that in the context of an East-West war, Romania was to be taken out of it by Turkish and Greek armies with American army corps among them supported on the Black Sea by units of the Turkish and Greek Mediteranean Naval Force.NATO changed substatially its attitude towards Romania when latter refused to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and when Bucharest strongly disapproved the military operations of the Warsaw Pact.After the fall of the Iron Courtain in Europe, in October 1990, the Romanian Ambassador to Belgium was autorised to initiate diplomatic relations to NATO. The strategic concept adopted in 1991 in Rome by the heads of states and government proposes a large vision over the security relied on dialogue, cooperation and on keeping a joint defensive potential.Between 1994-2003 Romania took part in about 3,400 activities and drills under the aegis of NATO or of peace partnership. On the 1st day of March 2004 it was promulgated the 22/2014 law of Romania’s adhesion to the North Atlantic Convention.

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