IntMin Bode: In the current troubled international context, Romania needs strong and credible institutions

Minister of the Interior Lucian Bode declared on Thursday, on the occasion of Interior Ministry Day, that Romania needs strong and credible institutions, particularly in the "troubled international context" we are going through.

"This year is an extremely complex one from the perspective of the security context and will remain so, because the challenges are not over yet. The return of the war to Europe, as a result of the unprovoked and unjustified aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, has put to the test the public systems' capacity of reaction. The system of defense, public order and national security was at the forefront again and has efficiently handled all these challenges," said the Interior Minister.

He pointed out that the institutions under the umbrella of the Ministry of the Interior had a significant workload on their hands, specifically processing at the border an inflow of over 1.5 million Ukrainian citizens who entered Romania since the beginning of the military conflict.

"I am referring to the operationalization of the logistics hub in Suceava, but also of the other mobile camps for refugees, I am also referring to the adaptation of operational measures to the evolution of the identified risks," Bode specified.

The Interior Minister also remarked that drug use directly or indirectly affects everyone.

"The dynamics of these phenomena is huge and there is no respite for the structures of the Interior Ministry, which substantially contributed to the titanic work done during this period", the Minister of the Interior also declared.

Lucian Bode also announced that starting this year, the Ministry of the Interior will have a flag of its own.

"It's an institutional sign specific to the units of the Ministry of the Interior, a recognition of the merits of the central structures that ensure the integrated coordination of the institution's activity. It's an element that individualizes this structure and I would also want it to have a catalytic role and enhance the accountability of all those who are part of it," Bode said.

A festivity was organized at Interior Ministry's headquarters on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the creation of this Ministry, during which the personnel who stood out in the last year through their activity and results were presented with distinctions.