| THE ROMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN WASHINGTON 02/06/2010 |
| (2010-06-02) |
| Last updated: 2010-06-03 14:22 EET |
The friendship and partnership between the US and Romania “grows stronger every year” said the American secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, at Tuesday’s meeting in Washington with the Romanian foreign minister, Teodor Baconschi.
Concluded in mid the 1990’s and consolidated in the early 21st century with the deployment of Romanian soldiers alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the setting up of American military bases in Romania, the bilateral partnership has been recently strengthened by co-opting Bucharest in the American anti-missile defence system. These privileged relations are based, Hillary Clinton said, “on a deep commitment to freedom and democracy” as well as on “a profound respect for human dignity and the rule of law”. The excellent top level relations have reached as far as the grass roots, from the factory opened by the Ford consortium in Craiova, in southern Romania, to the hundreds of Romanian IT experts working in Silicon Valley.
Minister Baconschi has tried to explore all the possibilities to raise more interest among the business community in the US towards the opportunities offered by the Romanian economy. A pending issue is Romania’s inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program aimed at lifting visas for the Romanian citizens who want to travel to the US.
“Since we are full fledged members of the EU and NATO, we believe that our citizens deserve to travel to the US without visas,” the Romanian foreign minister said in the end of his meeting with the US secretary of state.
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