President Iohannis welcomes NATO Secretary General: It is an important day to us all, defence shield gets activated

President Iohannis welcomes NATO Secretary General: It is an important day to us all, defence shield gets activated

President Klaus Iohannis welcomed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Thursday, mentioning that this is an important day as the missile defence shield at Deveselu will be activated.

“It is a very important day to us all. It is the day when the Deveselu [ballistic missile defence shield] is inaugurated and, moreover, I am glad that we have met and we can thoroughly discuss our common projects, particularly the upcoming [NATO] summit in Warsaw. I am positive we shall find common points of view,” Iohannis said at the beginning of the meeting.

NATO’s Secretary General said it is a great honour for him to come back to Romania.

At the end of the meeting, the two officials will hold a joint news conference.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is in Romania for the activation on Thursday of the Aegis Ashore missile defence site at Deveselu. More…