Condoleezza Rice may come and visit Bucharest sometime at the beginning of December to sign a bilateral treaty regarding military facilities for the Pentagon in Romania.

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Negotiations (on bases) are practically over. The agreement will be reviewed by the US State Department and the Romanian Foreign Ministry and then signed.

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We finalized negotiations regarding the U.S. military facilities on the Black Sea coast and maybe in other areas of Romania.

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Romania does not want to rule the Black Sea region […] the only thing we want is to warn the democratic states that we have a major security problem here. If Romania has got a security problem, it automatically affects all NATO members.

157

There is a deep connection between security, development and respect for human rights, democratic values and good governance in everything we are attempting now to reform our Organization.

151

Negotiations (on bases) are practically over.

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Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.

111

Global anti- terrorism can be sustained only by action taken at the Security Council level. It has to be a UN undertaking as a whole.

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