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Romania, Bulgaria environment ministers sign letter to Convention on Wetlands (RAMSAR)
A joint letter to the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands (RAMSAR) was signed here on Monday by Romanian Environment Minister Rovana Plumb and Bulgarian counterpart Julian Popov.
'We discussed many topics of common interest that naturally link us, not only by the Danube River, but also our common economic interests. We discussed many cooperation possibilities as part of the European programmes, so that to finally sign, in front of you, the letter to the Secretariat of RAMSAR Convention on Wetlands and I am convinced this is one more step towards our two countries' getting closer', Popov said.
'I want to send a friendly greeting to all the Bulgarian citizens. We had a bilateral meeting today to discuss concrete issues relating the environment and climate changes, in order to succeed in going together to the future 2014-2020 Financial Outline. We discussed matters relating the policies on climate changes, about backing the EU mandate to speak in a single voice with a view to attaining an international agreement in 2015 on the management of the climate change policies and drawing up a common viewpoint for the next Environment Council' of the European Union, stressed Plumb at a joint news conference at the end of the meeting.
She said Romania and Bulgaria want to support common projects particularly for the sustainable development of the Danube riverside towns.
The ministers of the two neighbouring states also discussed the air quality in the cross-border region and the monitoring conducted by four stations in Romania and four in Bulgaria. They addressed the issue of the polluting emissions from the Romanian Turnu Magurele plant, on the Danube bank and the cellulose plant on the Bulgarian Danube bank.
Plumb and Popov argued in favour of finding common solutions to the environmental protection projects that the two countries need and announced they will organise a common working group to discuss the EU funds in May or June.