Corlatean attends NATO foreign ministers' meeting

Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean attended the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the agenda of the event including allied meetings as well as a NATO-Ukraine Commission meeting attended by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, the foreign ministry announced in a release to AGERPRES.

Also featuring on the ministers' agenda was a meeting of the allies with the non-NATO states contributing to the Afghanistan operation, the release added.

The allied ministers taking part in the North Atlantic Council session swapped views of the agenda of the future NATO Summit in Wales, that includes aspects relating providing the collective defence of NATO members amid the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, the development of the cooperation with the partner states by two initiatives on boosting the inter-operability with the Alliance and strengthening the national defence capabilities as well as beefing up NATO efforts on maritime security.

'The foreign ministers evoked the importance of the trans-Atlantic relation, underscoring the need of its being adequately reflected at the future gathering of the heads of states and governments by means of a Declaration, on two main dimensions on the one hand relating the United States commitment to Europe and the European allies' will to fulfil their obligations, including the ones with respect to allotting the resources needed for defence, on the other. The ministers surveyed the progress made by the NATO aspiring states and agreed that the future Summit should reflect the importance and the success of the open-doors policy and worked out a substantial package for Georgia that should further support the state's moves for getting closer to NATO', the ministry said...