Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu who attended a two-day informal meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of Ministers of Foreign Affairs held in Berlin, said Romania supports the accession of Finland and Sweden to the Alliance and that Bucharest is ready to support the fast NATO accession of the two countries. He also stressed the importance, to Romania, of the two states’ contribution to the consolidation of NATO’s defence and deterrence posture on the Eastern Flank in a balanced manner, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, for the long run. Aurescu also said the new Strategic Concept to be adopted by the Alliance members at the end of June must be based on the concept of collective defence and reflect the fact that Russia remains the main threat to NATO.
