The United States President, George W. Bush will arrive in Bucharest on the 1st of April, after a visit in Ukraine. On the 2nd of April, in the morning, the White House leader will deliver remarks in Bucharest, and then he will travel to Constanta to meet with Romanian President, Traian Basescu.
Bush will return to Bucharest later that day to meet with the Secretary General of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, before participating in a working dinner of NATO leaders.
The program of President Bush in Romania was published by his National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Hadley also said on Thursday, April 3, Bush will participate in the NATO summit in Bucharest, at which it is expected that allied leaders will take decisions on new members. Bush will then participate in a NATO summit meeting with the leaders from nations invited to join the alliance that morning, followed by a working lunch on the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, so-called EAPC.
After the lunch, Bush will participate in a meeting on Afghanistan. At this meeting, NATO leaders will be joined by Afghan President Karzai, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon of the United Nations, and our other partners in Afghanistan, including the European Union, the World Bank.
On Friday, April 4, Bush will participate in a summit meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, followed by a summit meeting of the NATO-Russia Council. He will also meet with Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu.
"Romania is a close partner of the United States and has proven to be a valuable NATO ally since it joined the Alliance in 2004. The two Presidents will discuss a range of bilateral issues," Hadley said.
Stephen Hadley also said that the NATO Summit held in Bucharest "is proving the way that NATO enlargement has contributed to a successful transformation of Romania and of others news democracies from Central and Eastern Europe ".
(Source: Mediafax)
