“This year, we will work together with our American partners to implement all the action lines agreed upon in the fields stated in the Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century, so we will obtain real results, especially in the economic and free movement fields,” said Basescu at the annual meeting with diplomats.
The agreement between the United States and Romania on the deployment of a U.S. ballistic missile defense system in Romania took effect on December 23.
Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Baconschi and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed the agreement on September 13 in Washington, following a year of negotiations.
The Romanian Parliament ratified the agreement on December 6 and President Traian Basescu signed it into law on December 15.