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Romanian government intends to revitalize the country's defence industry
Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said on Monday that the Romanian government intends to revitalize the country's defence industry and produce high-tech NATO-standard equipment and components.
"We intend to bring back to life our defence industry to be able to produce high-tech NATO standard equipment and components in several fields, such as avionics or communications. We're also planning to modernize critical infrastructure and threat resilience capacity," Ciolos said at the Annual Meeting of Romanian Diplomacy.
The PM also stated that Romania's interest is to strengthen NATO's collective defence role.
"As far as Romania's NATO membership is concerned, our interest lies in strengthening the Alliance's role in collective defence, focusing on the Eastern and South-eastern regions, implicitly the Black Sea, strengthening the defence capacity of all allied states," Ciolos explained.
According to the PM, Romania wants to continue and deepen the Strategic Partnership with the United States - a vital aspect of Romania's national security and foreign policy.
"Together with capitalizing on the high level of the Romanian-American political bilateral dialogue, political and military coordination and cooperation by supporting the US presence in Romania, we believe it's necessary to develop other fields - and I'm thinking of economy, investments, research, innovation and education. It's the reason why my visit to the US had a strong economy component. (...) We will continue to stimulate the involvement of American partners in Romanian authorities' initiatives in order to make Romania's business environment more attractive and to be able to harness the economic potential of our partnership, which needs to be given a new dimension and a new consistency in the coming years," Ciolos added.