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PM Ciolacu: Romania's accession to OECD represents top priority of Gov't
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared on Thursday that Romania's accession to the OECD represents a top priority of the Government, told Agerpres.
The Prime Minister received, on Thursday, at the Victoria Palace, the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Ulrik Knudsen.
According to a press release sent to AGERPRES by the Government, Marcel Ciolacu emphasized on this occasion that Romania's accession to the OECD represents a top priority of the Government, and the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, Ulrik Knudsen, in turn, sent a message of support for Romania's efforts to join the organization.
During the discussion, the Prime Minister reconfirmed the firm commitment of the Romanian authorities for the successful completion of the accession process, respectively for the adoption of the organization's legal instruments and the alignment of national legislation, policies and practices with OECD standards, the Executive informs.
"Obtaining the status of a member of the OECD remains a strategic objective, the most important after the accession to NATO and the EU, shared and assumed by the entire political class, regardless of the changes in the leadership of the Government", the Prime Minister also declared.
The Government emphasizes that the accession process has both an internal dimension, which involves reforms, modernization and development, and an external dimension, focused on cooperation with the organization and dialogue with the member states.
"Romania is fully committed to making progress on both levels, through a sustained inter-institutional effort, similar to the one made during the process of joining the European Union", emphasized Ciolacu.
The most recent signal regarding the concrete political commitment for joining the OECD is the ratification of the Anti-Bribe Convention, one of the most important legal instruments of the OECD, the release states.
The PM also highlighted the other measures adopted internally in the sense of coordinating the sectoral approaches related to the current stage of the accession process, as well as the activity of the National Committee for Romania's accession to the OECD, which he coordinates as Prime Minister, and the role of the Foreign Ministry, which coordinates the process of Romania's accession to the OECD at the working level.
"The Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, Ulrik Knudsen, gave assurances that the Secretariat of the Organization will continue to provide our country with all the necessary support and encouraged Romania to maintain the current sustained pace of answering the evaluation questionnaires and participating in the sectoral evaluation missions within present in Bucharest on the occasion of the Summit and the Business Forum of the Three Seas Initiative, the OECD official congratulated Romania for organizing these events and highlighted Romania's contribution to the development of transport, energy and digital infrastructure in the area of the member states of the cooperation format of the Three Seas Initiative. Highlighting the correspondence of this approach with the OECD agenda, Ulrik Knudsen appreciated that Romania already demonstrates a high degree of convergence with the values, principles and objectives of the organization and makes a valuable contribution to the regional activity of the OECD", the release reads.
