ForMin Toiu says Romania has a strategic responsibility as the EU’s largest gas producer
Romania is assuming a strategic responsibility as the European Union’s largest natural gas producer and has a mission to increase output in order to lower domestic prices and help protect the region against the use of energy prices as a tool of political blackmail, Foreign Affairs Minister Oana Toiu said.
According to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) press release issued on Saturday, the head of Romanian diplomacy was invited to the public event ‘Davos to the Arctic: Forging Transatlantic Unity-A Romanian View’ hosted by the US think tank Hudson Institute in Washington.
The discussion at the Hudson Institute took place on the sidelines of Minister Oana Toiu’s participation in the first Critical Minerals Ministerial, hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance.
‘Our Romanian friends consistently and rightly remind us of the importance of the Black Sea region. (…) Work continues in turning MK [Mihail Kogalniceanu Base] Air Base into the largest such installation in NATO,’ Executive Vice President of the Hudson Institute Joel Scanlon said at the opening of the event, according to the release.
The Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister explained how Romania’s economic success – with the economy having grown tenfold in a single generation – now overlaps with the need for resilience across the entire transatlantic bloc, the MAE said.
According to the MAE release, Foreign Minister Toiu said Romania’s relationship with the United States has a history of more than 120 years, beginning with the first American investors in Romania’s energy sector. Today, this partnership is moving to the next level through cooperation in high-technology areas and critical minerals, essential for the future of both nations. As the largest natural gas producer in the European Union, Romania is assuming a strategic responsibility. The Foreign Affairs Minister said Romania’s mission is to increase production in the coming years to lower prices at home and help protect the region against the use of energy prices as a tool of political blackmail, as well as in order to ensure a viable and secure alternative to Russian resources. AGERPRES (RO – editing by: Catalin Alexandru; EN – writing by: Rodica State)
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