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For Romania, the diversification of the energy supply resources remains a priority
The Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) maintains it cooperated closely with the diplomacies of the other states involved in Nabucco project and that this experience would play a relevant role in shaping up some alternative projects and, at the same time, being a valuable exercise of regional cooperation.
'The Foreign Affairs Ministry will continue to promote, both in the European Union and on a regional level, the completion of some projects encountered in various stages of development, among which AGRI project remains a priority,' MAE says, as a reaction to the information spread in the media concerning Nabucco project.
MAE underscores it constantly acted in agreement with the energy policy of the European Union, supporting the measures for the creation of an internal energy market, secure, competitive and sustainable and that this has been and will remain a priority action direction of the Romanian economic and political diplomacy.
'For the European Union and, implicitly, for Romania, the diversification of the energy supply resources remains a priority. Without access to multiple resources we cannot create a truly competitive market of gas and we cannot obtain the lowest price possible for the European consumer. The correctness of the option for Nabucco project was confirmed by the European Union's decision of designating Nabucco, within the European Southern Corridor, as Common Interest Project for the EU. This decision was widely a result of the Romanian diplomatic action. In the efforts of promoting the Nabucco project, carried out over several years, the Romanian authorities and companies completely answered to the obligations imposed by the project's development calendar,' MAE shows.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry brings to mind it secured, over time, the necessary diplomatic support and the access to the relevant information for the political and economic decisions the project required.
'The relevance of Nabucco project to Romania must be appreciated in the context of the European policy for energy security. According to the estimations, Romania disposes of exploitable resources of gas meant to ensure, on medium and long-term, favourable prospects for energy independence. Romania's decision of joining Nabucco project was motivated, among others, by the desire of putting into practice the European solidarity principle and by the will of contributing to securing some predictable natural gas resources for the region we belong to,' MAE points out.