ROMANIA INTENDS TO DEEPEN BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan

Nov 17, 2008

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 17, NOYAN TAPAN. Receiving Foreign Minister of
Romania Lazar Comanescu on November 15, RA Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian expressed satisfaction with the traditional friendship
of the Armenian and Romanian peoples and dynamic development of
Armenian-Romanian relations.

Emphasizing the necessity to deepen the political dialogue, he
expressed the hope that the European direction can become a new
format of cooperation. E. Nalbandian attached a special importance
to cooperation with Romania within the framework of the European
Neighborhood Policy Actions Plan. He emphasized the necessity to
undertake concrete steps to further make active cooperation in
various spheres.

L. Comanescu also highly evaluated the friendly relations of Armenia
and Romania expressing his country’s intention to further deepen
them. He attached importance to the role of the Armenian community
in the process of development of bilateral relations. In the context
of regional cooperation the Foreign Minister of Romania attached
importance to the EU Black Sea Confederalization Program, as well as
implementation of cooperation between the two countries in the period
of Armenia’s chairmanship in BSEC.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, the Ministers touched upon the necessity to
expand the bilateral economic cooperation attaching importance to
the complete use of the Armenian-Romanian trade and economic potential.