Adrian Nastase - three days in the USA

The Prime Minister Adrian Nastase was yesterday night in the USA, where for three days important external affairs issues for Romania are to be displayed.

On Monday and Tuesday, these issues are to be displayed in New York, and on Wednesday in Washington the climax of the official visit - the welcoming at the White House and the meeting with the USA President, George W. Bush - is programmed.

July is a convenient period for the Romanian voice to be heard in the international concert, where the stage is occupied almost all the time by the great countries. From this point of view, the United Nations Organization (UN) remains the planetary institution I which the collective democracy is still respected. And there you have our country’ offer that is the president of the Security Council in July, its opportunity to control the buttons. An image exercise highly used by the Romanian governmental team from New York.

MEETINGS. Tomorrow, the Prime Minister Adrian Nastase chairs the Security Council Reunion with the subject "UN Cooperation - Regional Organizations in the Stabilizing Processes" and has in his agenda a meeting with Kofi Annan, the General Secretary of UN. For the "warm-up", on Monday agreements about the fight against the proliferation of nuclear material technologies are to be signed with the USA authorities, after a meeting with the Energy secretary, Spencer Abraham. At the end of the day, the Prime Minister together with Daniela Nastase, Mircea Geoana, Mihai Tanasescu, Eugen Dijmarescu and Mihnea Constantinescu and, the Prime Minister’s guest, the new USA ambassador for Romania, Jack Dyer Crouch II, are to have a business dinner with some leaders of American companies.

About the White House meeting we know that it will last for 30 minutes, on Wednesday, from 14:25 to 14:55, and that it will be followed by official statements to the press, for another 15 minutes. For the meeting with the president George Bush the senator Simona Marinescu is also announced as a participant. Dialogues with William Frist, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, with the State Secretary Collin Powell and with Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary are programmed.

OFFICIAL STATEMENTS. Nastase is to be "live" interviewed by CNN at 5 o’clock in the afternoon (middle of the night in Bucharest). The official visit is to end on Wednesday night with a reception with the occasion of the opening of the Romanian Society of Radio Broadcasting Bureau in Washington. We will present more details from Washington from the most interesting moments of this political-diplomatic visit.