Iohannis: There is no need for a new Bucharest-China axis

Candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) in the November 16 presidential runoff election Klaus Iohannis believes Romania should continue its strategic partnership and remain a serious NATO and EU partner, insisting that there is no need for reinventing Romania's foreign policy or a new Bucharest-China axis.

'Romania's security and the fact that we are finding ourselves in the current situation, despite all the geopolitical complications in the Ukraine area, is the result of that three pillars that have buttressed Romania's foreign policy, which has to be continued. We do not have to reinvent anything in the area of foreign policy. We have the strategic partnership with the US, our place and part in NATO and the EU and we have to prove that we are serious, long-term partners ready to undertake our part that we are ready to increase defence spending to 2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). There is no need for any new Bucharest-China axis, no need for reinventing. (...) We just have to prove that we are serious and for that we need a serious president,' Iohannis told Realitatea TV private broadcaster on Tuesday evening, at the first runoff debate.AGERPRES