US Vice-President Joe Biden to visit Romania May 20-21

US Vice-President Joe Biden will be visiting Romania May 20-21, Romania's Presidential Administration reports. 'Romania's President, Mr Traian Basescu, has invited US Vice-President, Mr Joseph Biden, to pay a visit to Romania, which will occur May 20-21,' the Administration says in a press release.

President Basescu on Monday, May 12, said he had invited Vice-President Biden to visit Romania.
'I have extended an invitation to Vice-President Joe Biden to visit Romania. He offered a tentative date. What we agreed was to issue the official reports on the visit simultaneously,' Basescu told Adevarul Live webcast.

Basescu also said that the US Secretary of Defence would also come to Bucharest and that he welcomed the CIA deputy director to discuss regional affairs and security in the region.

'I would like the US to act so that we can say it meets its obligations of a strategic partner to Romania also by the significance of the visits in the period immediately ahead and by direct contributions to increasing the security level in Romania and the region,' said Basescu.

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