Romania's FM to ask colleagues for more support for Moldova, Georgia at NATO ministers' meeting

Bogdan Aurescu, Romania's Foreign Minister, said he will ask his counterparts for more support for partner states, “especially the Republic of Moldova and Georgia”, as the official arrived at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Friday.

Aurescu said “NATO must adapt [the] military posture at its eastern flank to [the] new reality after Russia's invasion of Ukraine,” without spelling out if he wanted permanent presence of allied troops there.

“We have to adapt the posture to the reality, which shows that the Russians troops are in Ukraine and in Belarus, so we need to rethink everything,” the Foreign Minister noted.

Romania will increase its defence spending to 2.5 percent from 2 percent of its GDP starting with the next fiscal year, Aurescu also said.