Hague correspondence. Nicușor Dan now meets a delegation of American senators before participating in NATO summit
Nicușor Dan. Photo: Inquam Photos / Bogdan Buda
A delegation of three American senators is present in The Hague at the annual NATO summit and has a meeting today, June 24, with the Romanian President Nicușor Dan.
- Hotnews correspondent at the NATO Summit in The Hague, Laurențiu Ungureanu, transmits the main information from this event.
President Nicușor Dan meets at the moment with the delegation of American senators, after landing at the Schiphol airport in The Hague, before the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
The moment when the head of the Romanian state arrives at the Hague airport can be watched here.
Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat) and Thom Tillis (Republican), who co -defend the Senatorial Group of NATO observers, lead the delegation, of which Senator Chris Coons (Democrat) also announced, announced the American publication Punchbowl.news which has revealed from June 20 that this delegation will meet with the President of Romania. Dutch and with the Secretary General of NATO.
Nicușor Dan arrived in The Hague on Tuesday, around 4 pm, in The Hague, and today the participation in the dinner offered by King Willem-Alexander and Regina Máxima is scheduled by the honor of the delegations present at the Hague Summit.
Also, Nicușor Dan will also have meetings like Pull-Asida, without the members of the delegations, with the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Turkish President Recep Erdogan, according to HotNews sources.
The meeting with the American senators is the first that Nicușor Dan has with American officials since taking over the mandate. He had a telephone conversation with President Donald Trump, on May 27, one day after taking over the president.
The call came after a period of cooling of the bilateral relations, in which JD Vance Vice -President criticized, on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, the annulment of the presidential elections in Romania, and the US administration decided to remove Romania from the Visa Waiver program, on May 2.
President Nicușor Dan later told the press that the most important thing after discussing with his American counterpart is to continue the strategic partnership between the US and Romania.
“Yes, I confirm,” said Dan, asked by journalists if he was invited to go to the US during the conversation with Trump.
“The most important thing, after this discussion, is that our partnership will continue. This is the most important thing,” said Nicușor Dan, greeting the appointment of a new US ambassador to Bucharest.
The mandate with which Nicușor Dan went to The Hague
President Nicușor Dan will support the decisions regarding the gradual growth of defense budgets and the consolidation of the NATO discouragement and defense posture, the Presidential Administration said in a press release announcing the NATO Summit in The Hague, between 24 and 25 June.
Also, Nicușor Dan will request to pay increased attention to the eastern flank and the Black Sea, a region of strategic importance for Euro -Atlantic security. At the same time, the president will express the support of Romania in the long term for Ukraine, as well as for other countries exposed to the threat of Russia, especially the Republic of Moldova, Cotroceniul also sent.
