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The East -West collision is currently less intense although it hasn't yet fully died out, and this is the effect of action by international institutions, Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu on Wednesday told the seventh edition of the Bucharest Forum.
Melescanu added that other highly important actors in the process are NATO and the EU and that the major change in terms of the East - West confrontation is the massive shift in war-related concepts.
There is a very clear international tendency, under the effect of NATO Article 5, of keeping actions below the level that would trigger this article. This also shapes a certain vision we call hybrid war, which builds on particular elements such as fake news, the use of cybernetic systems, involvement in another country's elections. As a result of all this, the confrontation's character is different than strictly military, said the ForMin.
As to one of the subjects under debate in the forum - 'The rise of (Eur)Asia and the West: Collision, Collusion or Cooperation?', Melescanu underscored that in his view the concept of conciliation and cooperation is the only solution to everything currently going on.
The Foreign Minister said that the term at the Presidency of the Council of the EU as of January 1, 2019 is a particular opportunity for Romania, and brought to mind that ensuring EU's internal and external security and expanding the Union's international role are among Romania's priorities for this term.
