‘Romania unreservedly backs NATO’s expansion to the Western Balkans, with a special mention for Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia – Serbia by all means. Romania believes Serbia is the key to peace in the Balkans,’ Basescu said. He added that he and the NATO Secretary-General also examined the security issues in the Republic of Moldova as well as the prospects for cooperation in the NATO-Georgia and NATO- Ukraine partnerships.
The Romanian Head of State said they had analyzed the prospects for the full implementation of the Conventional Forces Europe Treaty. In his turn Anders Fogh Rasmussen added that, during his talk with Traian Basescu, they approached the question of the Alliance’s open door policy.
We have agreed on the great importance attached to the open door policy being continued. My outlook is to see all the countries in the Western Balkans integrated into the Euro-Atlantic structures, in the EU, and I hope that we shall be able to sense some progress from this point of view in the years to come. I hope that a first step in this respect could be taken at the meeting of the foreign ministers in December, he said.
In the evening President Basescu attends the meeting of the EU heads of state and government.
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