Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said Tuesday after a meeting at the White House with US Vice President Joe Biden that the US will help Romania develop financial instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as to increase management quality at the country's state-run companies.
"We have also discussed the possibility for furthering economic cooperation, boosting US investment in Romania, and we have received the White House's support to the point, a topic I discussed yesterday in Detroit as well as today with Trade Secretary Penny Pritzker. We have a roadmap where the United States will help us develop financial instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises as well as quality management at state-run companies," Ciolos told journalists at a news conference at the White House.
He added that he and Biden also reviewed cooperation as part of the Eastern European partnership, with emphasis on the importance to support Moldova. "I got the guarantee of US support for this matter as well," said Ciolos.
He added that in his conversation with Biden, he mentioned Romania's interest in and expectations related to progress with the Visa Waiver programme.
"We understand the political state in the United States this year, but we agreed to continue working together on this matter so as to be able to work out solutions within the shortest time possible," added Ciolos.
The Biden-Ciolos meeting was hosted in the West Wing of the White House, located close to the Oval Office, and it lasted about one hour and ten minutes, instead of half an hour as officially scheduled.
Accompanying Ciolos were Romania's Ambassador to the United States George Cristian Maior, Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu, Agriculture Minister Achim Irimescu, Prime Minister's Chancellery head Dragos Tudorache, Foreign Policy Advisor Calin Ungur and Government Spokesman Dan Suciu.
Biden came at the meeting with U.S. ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, his National Security Advisor Colin Kahl, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy James Townsend. The American delegation also included two special assistants to U.S. President Barack Obama.
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