The Romanian ambassador expressed these views in an exclusive interview. He further said, ‘we have tradition, we have many success stories, and we have all the necessary ingredients to reset our economic cooperation to a much higher level that it is right now’.
He further said as the
ambassador of Romania he will put high on his agenda laying down the foundation
for increasing the people to people contact, work system so that our expertise
in the fields like construction, infrastructure, insurance, banking and finance,
MSE etc. will be transferred to our Pakistani partners. We are going to
encourage Romanian businessmen to invest in Pakistan, we will support the
process of training young Pakistani in Romania.
Talking about bilateral
political relations between Romania and Pakistan he said they are from cordial
to excellent. An important number of high level visits on both sides have given
impetus to these relations.
“We aim to expand our bilateral
political dialogue and keep in mind that the consultations between Ministries
of Foreign Affairs are becoming instrumental in promoting and supporting the
mutually beneficial items on our common agenda, as well as in preparing high
level contacts”.
The economic and trade relations between both countries have been growing for the last decades and Romania is an important trading partner of Pakistan. Both countries have been enjoying historical friendship and traditional cooperation in many fields for the past many years but there is a need to enhance trade volume between booth countries. Our main priority is to increase and diversify the commercial exchanges between Romania and Pakistan, in a balanced manner for exports and imports, Ambassador Goia added.
Talking about COVID situation
in his country the ambassador said, in 2020 COVID-19 affected almost all
countries and more than 50 million people around the world. It has governments
operating in a context of radical uncertainty, and faced with difficult
trade-offs given the health, economic and social challenges it raises.
By spring 2020, more than half
of the world’s population had experienced a lockdown with strong containment
measures. Beyond the health and human tragedy of the coronavirus, it is now
widely recognized that the pandemic triggered the most serious economic crisis
since World War II.
‘Our countries are facing
unprecedented challenges from COVID-19 the strain on our governments is
extreme, and the impact on people all over the world continues to grow’.
He said, nowadays, there is a
strong need to strengthen the international economic cooperation and,
simultaneously, to reconstruct the traditional relationship with the old
friends, Pakistan among them.
Besides the bilateral
cooperation through mutual investments, we are also interested to find options
of working together on the third markets where, Romania and Pakistan might
conjugate their resources and energies in the most constructive way. This is,
unfortunately, a domain which had been somehow neglected lately because of
focusing on the internal reconstruction of economy.
Romania and Pakistan do have
common areas of interest both geographically (Near East, Northern Africa etc.)
and thematically (the common interest of developing sectors as IT and
communications, civil constructions and infrastructure, agriculture etc.).
Our priorities, bilaterally,
but also at EU level, are to support the democratic evolution of Pakistan, to
intensify commercial trade and investments, and to consolidate regional
stability, with special focus on the situation in Afghanistan.
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