Kuleba Meets with New Romanian Foreign Minister for First Time

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister and Luminita Odobescu, Foreign Minister in the newly shaped Romanian government, have held their first meeting on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London.

Kuleba said that the ministers discussed how to develop bilateral relations further to "realise its full potential" and thanked Romania for supporting Ukraine's future membership in NATO.

"Expressed Romania’s full support for Ukraine’s European and Euroatlantic goals. Agreed to work together closely on all issues – connectivity, energy, minorities. Romania stands with Ukraine against Russian aggression!"  Luminita Odobescu said on Twitter.

Productive discussion with FM 🇺🇦 @DmytroKuleba on the priorities of 🇷🇴🇺🇦 agenda . Expressed 🇷🇴full support for 🇺🇦European and Euroatlantic goals. Agreed to work together closely on all issues – connectivity, energy, minorities. Romania stands with 🇺🇦against the RU aggression! pic.twitter.com/I02Eh8OPwH

— Luminita Odobescu (@Odobes1Luminita) June 21, 2023

A change of government occurred in Romania last week, when the Prime Minister's office was taken by Marcel Ciolacu, leader of the Social Democratic Party of the ruling coalition. This is a natural rotation-based shift of governments in this country.