Text of report by Romanian radio on 14 August

[Announcer] EU and NATO integration are at present Bulgaria`s and Romania`s joint priorities - these issues represented the nucleus of today`s talks held by Prime Ministers Adrian Nastase and Simeon Saxe-Coburg. Here is Victor Caraculacu, our special correspondent in Bulgaria, reporting live from the venue:

[Caraculacu] The talks held by the Romanian and Bulgarian prime ministers made it possible to redefine and relaunch bilateral relations, because both, the head of the executive in Bucharest and his counterpart in Sofia, place emphasis on traditional relations between the two countries and on Romania`s and Bulgaria`s joint aspiration to join NATO and the European Union. Prime Minister Nastase said that these aspirations could serve as the basis for joint efforts to be made by the two countries.
[Nastase] We thought it was of primary importance to give the public, the media and our friends abroad a very clear signal, as soon as possible, that we envisage a tandem formula, which we wish to set up and which should serve as a basis for our future actions. We think that EU and NATO accession represent joint priorities for our countries. We wish to help each other in achieving these objectives.
Furthermore, we consider that it is very important to revise the entire agenda of our ties and the issues that need to be resolved in our bilateral relations.

[Caraculacu] This is what Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said:
[Simeon in Bulgarian with passage-by-passage translation into Romanian] Our talks were very constructive and important. We have found that our countries and our governments share very many points of view, especially regarding our future goals and our joint wish to accede to the European Union and NATO.

[Caraculacu] Considered to be the most important issue broached during today`s intergovernmental talks, EU integration quite obviously represented the central subject. Other issues, however, such as shutting down the two reactors of the Kozloduy nuclear electricity plant and the building of a new bridge across the Danube, were left to the teams of experts who are to hold talks in the future.

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