​The treaty on the anti ballistic missile interceptors that Romania will sign with the USA will not contain secret annexes, Foreign Affairs State Secretary Bogdan Aurescu declared in an interview for Hotnews.ro. He said that in Romania there will be at least 24 interceptors of missiles and three launching mechanisms plus a number of back up interceptors.

Aurescu said that Russia was informed by the Romanian party and by the NATO Council of the evolutions related to the project and considered the recent Russian rhetoric after the announcement of the Romanian party to place the anti ballistic missile shield at Deveselu, South Romania, as an opportunity to reinforce its opposition to the project.

The State Secretary reminded that the Russian Foreign Affairs minister Serghey Lavrov said recently that Moscow does not have a problem with the first and second stages of the project but is more concerned with the last two stages that will be implemented in 2018 and 2020. Romania is part of the second stage.

Here are his most important statements

Negotiating and signing the deal with the US

Talks will continue to negotiations on the implementation arrangements. There is a set of technical documents that ensure the implementation of the project.

This project has every perspective to become a NATO project, following the decisions taken at the Lisbon summit last year when it was decided to create a NATO anti ballistic missile shield and for which the US project will be the focal point

Therefore, the Romanian military base at Deveselu will become in time a NATO base

All Parliamentary political parties endorsed this project which they considered important for Romania’s security and strategic interests. It is a national consensus and there will no problems to ratify it in the Parliament

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