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Declaration on establishing Extended Partnership between Romania and India to be signed in New Delhi in March
Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Titus Corlatean will pay a visit to New Delhi in early March, an occasion on which they will sign the declaration on establishing an Extended Partnership between Romania and India.
Corlatean at the end of last week discussed this subject with Mrs Manimekalai Murugesan, India's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania, informs a release issued by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE).
'Minister Corlatean emphasized the excellent potential of the Romanian-Indian relation and said that the joint efforts made by the Romanian and Indian authorities may lead to a re-launch of the bilateral dialogue between the two states in line with the developments and challenges of the 21st century. The talks focused on the necessity to make the political dialogue and the high-level visit exchanges more dynamic. A first bilateral meeting will be held in early March 2013 during the visit to be paid by the Romanian Foreign Minister to New Delhi when they also sign the declaration on establishing an extended partnership between Romania and India,' reads the above-mentioned source.
According to MAE, an essential aim of the two countries is still the consolidation of the economic cooperation between the two states as India is Romania's second economic partner in Asia. 'The organization of a new session of the joint Romanian-Indian commission in 2013 in New Delhi will contribute to the deepening of the discussions on concrete economic cooperation projects,' informs the diplomacy in Bucharest.
In her turn Manimekalai Murugesan confirmed again the importance her country attached to the development of the relations with Romania as well as the interest in cooperation in such fields as the IT, steel, agriculture, nonconventional energy, infrastructure, chemical fertilizers.
The two officials mentioned the importance of the cultural cooperation, of exchanges in education and of the people-to-people dialogue in the process of our peoples' constantly coming nearer to each other.