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The Romanian embassy, in its capacity of NATO Contact Point Embassy in Azerbaijan, hosted a roundtable on “Current situation and perspectives of NATO-Azerbaijan cooperation” on January 27.

Addressing the event, Romanian ambassador Daniel Cristian Ciobanu highlighted the strategic importance of development of NATO-Azerbaijan partnership.

Ciobanu underlined that Azerbaijan is a valuable partner of NATO. Maintaining sustained political contacts at various levels will contribute to the enhancement of relations between NATO and Azerbaijan.

“Romania will continue to actively support Azerbaijan to develop further its dialogue and cooperation with NATO,” he said.

Head of NATO Liaison Office for South Caucasus, William Lahue, had an in-depth presentation about NATO priorities regarding Azerbaijan in 2016.

ambassadors, defense attaches and senior diplomats from embassies of NATO countries in Baku and NATO Liaison Office for South Caucasus attended the event. Participants in the roundtable exchanged views on different aspects of joint interest regarding NATO-Azerbaijan cooperation.

Last year Romanian diplomatic mission organized in cooperation with local partners a large number of public diplomacy activities including conferences, roundtables, workshops and seminars in Baku, Nakhcivan, Shamakhi, Mingachevir, Barda, Quba and Sheki with the goal of increasing public awareness, especially among the Azerbaijani young generation, regarding North Atlantic Alliance and the benefits of NATO-Azerbaijan cooperation.

This month the embassy organized a NATO presentation stand at Global Village festival in Baku on January 8. Furthermore, Romanian ambassador delivered a speech at NATO International School of Azerbaijan winter session on January 11-15 and took part in a political talk show on a local TV channel on January 15.

During 2016, the Romanian embassy will focus on disseminating information regarding NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 8-9, which will be a landmark event. From a Romanian perspective, substantive decisions should be taken at Warsaw Summit, in view of the Alliance's long-term adaptation process to security challenges.

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