President Iohannis, US Secretary of Energy Perry about importance of transparent legislative process in Romania

President Klaus Iohannis talked on Tuesday with the US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry about the importance of a transparent, predictable, fair and stable legislative process, aimed at attracting foreign investment in Romania, the Presidential Administration specifies in a press release sent to AGERPRES. 

"The meeting occasioned a deeper discussion about the dimension of the Strategic Partnership between Romania and the United States, with a focus on mutual interest projects, including at an economic and energy level, in keeping with the ones agreed upon by President Iohannis and President Donald Trump during the specially fruitful meeting of June 9, 2017 at the White House," the cited source shows. 

US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry voiced the US side's special appreciation for the results of the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Bucharest and brought to mind the high consideration President Trump has for the Romanian President, the Presidential Administration mentions. 

President Iohannis thanked US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry for the United States' strong support with regard to the Three Seas Initiative and for the commitment of the US Administration in upholding the Initiative's bold objectives, as they were established at the Summit in Bucharest, in relation to regional interconnectivity, the deepening of cohesion and convergence at the level of the EU and the strengthening of the transatlantic relation. 

Romania's President expressed appreciation toward the proposal announced by Secretary Perry during the Three Seas Initiative Summit regarding Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC), arguing that this platform has the potential to bring added value both to the transatlantic cooperation and to the Strategic Partnership between Romania and the United States. 

Bringing to mind the excellent stage of the bilateral political and security cooperation, President Iohannis has showed that P-TEC substantially completes the economic tier of the strategic partnership relation between Romania and the United States, and that this economic dimension must also reach its full potential and achieve at least the level of excellency of the political, military and security dimensions. 

According to the cited source, special attention has also been given to the topics of energy security at European level and in the Black Sea region, Romania being one of the least dependent states from this point of view, with the potential to become, through interconnection and strategic investment projects, a regional provider. In this context, Perry underlined the importance, regionally as well as for Romania, of the gas resources in the Romanian continental shelf of the Black Sea, the Presidential Administration further shows.