EXCLUSIVE / RUSSIAN FEDERATION AMBASSADOR IN ROMANIA:"We don't intend to be drawn into a new arms race"
Recorded by ANCUŢA STANCIU (translated by Cosmin Ghidoveanu)English Section / 23 ianuarie 2017
Reporter: Your Excellency, you have recently said that Russia expects from the new government an improvement in the Russian-Romanian relations, which are currently very cold. What would help the relations between Romania and Russia develop, especially on the economic side? What is the status of the Russian-Romanian economic forum, which will take place this spring?
Valeri Kuzmin: The Russian Federation is proposing to Romania to expand on a purely pragmatic basis the mutually advantageous economic and commercial cooperation, which has considerably decreased in the last three years, even though in 2016, the turnover of commercial exchanges between our two countries has stabilized itself at USD 3 billion.