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President Traian Basescu and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski signed, on Wednesday, at the Cotroceni presidential Palace, a declaration of strategic partnership, the Romanian head of state remarked that this event finalizes a long process of work at diplomatic and governmental level, for the two sides.

“The strategic partnership is aimed at the political cooperation in the field of security, energy and long lasting development, agriculture, regional development, transport, climate changes and other economic objectives, ” said Traian Basescu, at a press statement held together with his counterpart from Poland.

According to president Basescu, during the talks held by the two parties, a series of common approaches resulted, as regards the Treaty of Lisbon or the regional problems.

“From the talks we have had with Mr. President, we have noticed common approaches, both as regards the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and as regards the future structure of the Commission. We also approached the regional problems related to the Balkans, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, as well as Central Asia, particularly issues connected with the energy resources, ” Basescu added.

For his part, president of Poland Lech Kaczynski thanked the Romanian president for this meeting, for the talks held, showing that they were aimed at the regional problems, as well as matters related to the EU. “I want to stress that we approached topics of interest for both parties and we signed that document.

We have discussed problems related to the new functions of the European Union. We have to take into account that the policy of our American allies has been modified somehow as regards our countries in that area. We have not avoided the theme of Ukraine, we have not avoided the issue of Turkey, ” Kaczynski said.

He mentioned that this is the third official meeting with Traian Basescu, reminding the moment of his visit to Bucharest about one year and a half ago. Late on Wednesday, president Traian Basescu will offer an official dinner in the honour of president Lech Kaczynski.

The Polish head of state is to have on Tuesday meetings with prime minister Emil Boc, with speaker of the Senate Mircea Geoana, with speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Roberta Anastase. The visit of the Polish President to Romania was announced this May, during a symposium dedicated to the 90-th anniversary of Romanian-Polish diplomatic relations.

Also this March, president Traian Basescu made a one-day official visit to the Polish Republic, at the invitation of his counterpart. On June 4, prime minister Emil Boc had, in Krakow, a bilateral meeting with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, on which occasion, the signing in Bucharest of a Romanian-Polish partnership took place.