Dean Thompson: USA and Romania will cooperate to promote freedom and defence against threats

US Embassy to Romania Charge d'Affaires Dean Thompson on Tuesday said that the United States will continue to cooperate with Romania in order to promote freedom and defence against regional and global threats.

We will cooperate to make sure that the law is enforced for everyone and both countries are protected against transnational crime and terrorism. It is a common duty to guarantee that these ideas and institutions are protected, strengthened and preserved for the following 135 years, for the future generations, Dean Thompson said at the public debate occasioned by the celebration of 135 years of Romanian-US diplomatic ties, organised by the Black Sea University Foundation.

He also spoke of the Strategic Partnership of the US with Romania, which has its foundations in 1997, during the Clinton Administration, reiterated in 2011 through the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century.

Many people think that it is built on a military foundation, but we, those who work on this relation day by day, know that it entails something much more profound, it entails cooperation in the law enforcement, educational, cultural fields, inter-human relations and an important growth of economic and trade relations, Dean Thompson underscored.

The Charge d'Affaires of the US Embassy in Bucharest brought to mind that the core of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries consists of the trans-Atlantic values that both the United States and Romania share.

One thing that I would like to emphasise about this anniversary is the North Atlantic Treaty, which, beyond any mention of collective security or military alliance, points out that the NATO members commit to safeguard freedom, the common inheritance and...