Aurescu: Romania interested that local firms get involved in setting up of Deveselu base

State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu on Tuesday reiterated Romania's interest that local firms get involved in the setting up of the Deveselu Base.

Aurescu attended the 2014 Multinational Ballistic Missile Defence Conference organized by the U.S. Agency for Ballistic Missile Defense and hosted by Bucharest.

The Romanian official met with Director of the US Missile Defense Agency, Vice Admiral James D. Syring, the Foreign Ministry reports in a release.

During the talks, emphasis was put on the progress of the US. missile defence system in Romania in enforcing the provisions of the Romania-US Agreement on setting up the U.S. ballistic missile defence system in Romania since 2007.

Bogdan Aurescu hailed the successful conduct in 2014 of testing of parts of the U.S. ballistic missile defence system Aegis Ashore, including the SM3 Block I B interceptors to be deployed at the Deveselu Base. The tests confirmed the efficiency of the Aegis ballistic missile defence system and the on schedule deployment of the second stage in the US European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA).

Vice Admiral James D. Syring reaffirmed the United States' firm commitment to making the Anti-missile facility at the Deveselu military base operational in 2015.AGERPRES