Romania will insist at the NATO Summit that the declaration to be adopted on that occasion should mention the need to cover several Alliance countries with a NATO complementary system that should complete the U.S. one to be set up in the Czech Republic and Poland, Defence Minister Teodor Melescanu told Rompres on Thursday.
He stressed this should be one of the NATO priorities in the period ahead.
'Our opinion is that the missile shield proposed by the United States is an important contribution to the defence of the territory of some NATO member states or of most of the territory of the NATO member states but, at the same time, we are aware that the territories of other countries, Romania included, are not fully covered', Melescanu said.
Some of the issues Romania will back at the NATO top-level meeting due in Bucharest next week include the support for the NATO accession of Croatia, Albania and Macedonia, the defence minister announced. He also underscored the Romanian side's support for 'a very clear message for the Western Balkan countries, namely Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina with respect to the "open door" policy that NATO has with them and the wish that the dialogue between them and the Alliance and ultimately their admission to NATO should remain goals of the North Atlantic Alliance'.
Another stand Romania will promote will be one of support for initiating the Membership Action Plan aimed at eventually admitting Ukraine and Georgia into the Alliance, Melescanu stressed.
(Source: Rompres)
