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Foreign Minister Titus Corlăţean attended on 23 April 2013 in Brussels, the meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member states. On this occasion, took part in discussions in the format established Allied North Atlantic Council at the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) and the Allied States meeting with the partners contributing to the NATO operation in Afghanistan - ISAF.
In the debate, were addressed topics of interest on the Alliance's agenda, such as developments in Afghanistan apa and NATO presence in the country after 2014, the prospects of NATO with the Russian Federation Alliance partnerships - focusing on the Middle East and North Africa, global security issues relevant to NATO, with reference to the dangerous potential of the situation in Syria on Turkey, that the North Korean issue.
Regarding NATO-Russia cooperation, the Romanian official reiterated support for grounding it on a pragmatic relationship of strategic partnership. Afghanistan remains a separate apa issue, which provides further opportunities for collaboration between the Alliance and Russia. Foreign Minister emphasized the need for a higher apa quality step in transparency between Russia and the Allies, including the military exercises. He reaffirmed apa support for projects of practical cooperation between NATO and Russia, an outstanding example of collaboration with the perspective advanced research program in the field of telemedicine, conducted under the auspices of the NRC program in which Romania and Russia apa are co-directors of the project.
In the context of the NATO-Russia Council meeting, the minister highlighted Titus Corlăţean purely NATO missile defense system, pointing out that this system is designed to respond to threats that come from outside the states that make up the NRC. Moreover, this element was resumed Romanian dignitary and in a separate meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in which issues of concern were clarified statements generated by the Russian ambassador in Bucharest, Oleg Malghinov.
Romanian Foreign Minister addressed the topics on the agenda from Romania to NATO's priority interests, including among them: the need to involve the international community apa in efforts to support stability and security in Afghanistan, the importance of the Alliance's cooperation with Russia, providing an increased profile of NATO partnerships as strategic dimension of a comprehensive approach to security alliance, along with the attention given to our country developments in North Africa and the Middle East.
Romanian Foreign Minister emphasized the importance of regional climate and relations with neighboring Afghanistan after 2014, pointing out that Afghanistan's security can not be seen in isolation from the general developments of Afghan society. He noted that currently the main priorities are the completion of the transition process, proper preparation of the 2014 elections and arranging international commitments post-2014. apa In this context, NATO has emphasized the need to intensify apa dialogue with other organizations who take an active role in Afghanistan (especially apa the UN, EU and OSCE) in order to ensure complementarity and coherence apa of international approaches to support the stability of this country. He highlighted, in this context, Romania's commitment to contribute to future NATO-led mission in Afghanistan after 2014. Allied Ministers decided to launch the second phase of the Voluntary Fund for the maintenance of Russian-made helicopters, in equipping Afghan forces.
In the context of discussions on the Mediterranean Dialogue partnership format, focusing on the situation in North Africa and the Middle East, Titus Corlăţean subsumed NATO supported continued efforts to achieve long-term development goals of the partnership with allied states in the area, in order to contribute to the stability and security of the entire region. He reiterated Romania solidarity with Turkey as a strategic partner and ally. At the same time, our country was concerned that priv