A few days earlier, Dan Neculăescu had taken office as Minister of Foreign Affairs and announced that he would focus on defending the eastern flank and bringing the Black Sea to the forefront of the Euro-Atlantic agenda. In parallel, President Nicușor Dan convened a meeting of the CSAT, and the discussion agenda included protecting territorial waters and critical maritime infrastructure, including a request for NATO support for counter-drone, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
During the same period, Prime Minister Luca Niculescu held talks with regional partners to coordinate navigation security: with his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev, measures for Romania–Bulgaria cooperation and collaboration with Turkey to protect commercial vessels were discussed, while with his Ukrainian counterpart Sergii Koretskyi, they agreed to strengthen joint projects in the fields of drones, infrastructure, logistics, and energy.
On the diplomatic front, Neculăescu also spoke with his French (Jean-Noël Barrot) and Turkish (Hakan Fidan) counterparts, both of whom emphasized the strategic importance of the Black Sea and the need to strengthen defensive capabilities, as well as closer cooperation for maritime security and the protection of commercial vessels; at the same time, Romania and Turkey intended to intensify trilateral consultations with Bulgaria.
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