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Deputy PM Ana Birchall on Tuesday and Wednesday participated in Singapore in the first edition of the Economic Forum organised by Bloomberg Foundation, in which context she highlighted Romania's role as an important regional player, with a potential to become a main route of the international trade corridors.
According to a press release of the Government on Wednesday sent to AGERPRES, the Deputy PM delivered a speech to the round table entitled "New Trade Routes," as well as to the seminary dedicated to artificial-intelligence based technologies' impact on societies. Moreover, Birchall participated in the dinner offered to the participants by the Singaporean PM, Lee Hsien Loong.
In her message at the beginning of the meeting, Ana Birchall highlighted the importance of launching Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
"I have no doubt that Bloomberg Forum, at its first edition this year, will become one of the most prestigious debate platforms worldwide, where there will be identified and debated the global challenges, opportunities and the related solutions - either if we talk of energy, digitization, cyber security, interconnectivity and infrastructure, new trade routes, climate changes," stated the Romanian Deputy PM.
During the session "New Trade Routes," Birchall emphasized on the strategic role of Romania, "of a bridge between Europe and Asia," as well as our country's potential "of becoming an exceptionally important regional hub."
She presented the projects promoted at the Tree Seas Initiative Summit, organised in Bucharest in September this year.
On the sidelines of the forum, Birchall had a series of meetings and discussions with high officials in attendance at the event.
During her meeting with the Singaporean PM, she relayed a message from PM Viorica Dancila, emphasizing on the importance of developing and strengthening cooperation between the two countries, including in the context of the signing of the EU-Singapore Agreement on October 19 2018. At the same time, the Romanian head of the Executive reiterated the Romanian side's desire to strengthen the economic relation between the two countries.
At the meeting with Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy PM of the Republic of Singapore, and Ong Ye Kung, the Singaporean Minister of Education, they established concrete collaboration measures, including by considering the fact that Romania is preparing to take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, while Singapore will be the coordinator of the ASEAN-EU relations in 2018-2021.
The Deputy PM Birchall also discussed with the general manager of ExxonMobil, Darren Woods, on which occasion she highlighted and promoted Romania's energy potential, including from the perspective of Romania's strategic role.
Ana Birchall also had discussions with Danny Alexander, the Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Lim Chow Kiat, CEO of the Government Investment Corporation Singapore, Abu Hassan Mahmood Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and Giorgi Kobulia, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
AGERPRES .
