City of London Lord Mayor Alastair King declared on Wednesday in the opening of the Romania - UK Economic Forum that Romania and the United Kingdom have a mutually beneficial partnership built on strong diplomatic, military and economic ties, as well as on the values of peace, friendship and free trade.
The relationship between Romania and the United Kingdom dates back hundreds of years - indeed, thousands of years if we consider that the Dacian troops on the territory of today's Romania were part of the Roman forces stationed here 18 centuries ago. Moving forward to the present, we have a mutually beneficial partnership built on strong diplomatic, military and economic ties, as well as on the shared values of peace, friendship and free trade. These economic ties have led to the rise in the amount of trade between our nations to 9.5 billion GBP over the last year, while interpersonal ties that connect the two nations along the direction of common efforts reflect in the fact that Romanian is currently the second most spoken foreign language in the United Kingdom, Alastair King said in the opening of the Forum, which he attended together with Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
He also mentioned that the two countries have an extremely strong basis to strengthen their partnerships further on.
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, my message to our Romanian friends here today is simple: we want to work and trade with you and we want to see many areas ready for cooperation. From using British expertise for expanding and increasing equity to looking at Romanian know-how in areas such as software development, we can learn and benefit from each other. Famous Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran said that we are all 'afraid of the enormity of the possible'. The dialogue initiated today is about exploring the enormity of the possible when our nations work together, he concluded.
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu is on a working visit to the UK that also sees him meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and with House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
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