Bucharest will function normally during the NATO summit from the viewpoint of all the public utilities, Romanian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Ilie Banica. « One should understand that from a social, economic viewpoint, from the viewpoint of city transport, of all the public utilities, Bucharest will be a city that will function normally during the summit », Banica stressed. He remembered the Minister has initiated a project of governmental resolution by witch during the Summit – the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th April – to be established days free for people who lives in Bucharest and who work in public sector.
In fact, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Interior and Administrative Reform will modify this project in order that the traffic in the city will be diminished but without closing the public institutions.
As many as 14 hotels in downtown Bucharest have been booked for the official delegations and another 16 for the reporters. Out of the latter, six are already fully booked, Banica said and he once again announced that the journalists can be accredited on the NATO Web site by March 29.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman explained that the budgets of the institutions involved in organising the summit have been supplemented under various governmental resolutions and that such institutions have generally completed the purchase of goods and services. The budget of the North Atlantic Alliance summit currently stands at 92.309 million lei or roughly 25.6 million euros, he added.
Romanian Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu will attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council on March 6, alongside the other NATO foreign ministers, which will offer them the last opportunity to review the topics on the agenda of the Bucharest gathering. The Council's agenda includes the NATO enlargement, the NATO-Russia partnership and NATO's involvement in Russia.
(Source:Rompres)
