Strengthening bilateral relations through strategic economic partnership with Romania

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Anoma Gamage presents Sri Lankan value added spices to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Romania Minister Petre Daea

Minister Daya Gamage recently visited Romania to strengthen the bilateral relationship between Sri Lanka and Romania. He was accompanied by Deputy Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development Dr. Anoma Gamage.

During this visit the Minister had discussions with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Romania and Deputy Minister Energy Petre Daea. Romania is one of the countries coming under the European Union and Sri Lanka has enormous opportunities to access Europe through Romania. Petre Daea warmly accepted a suggestion made by Minister Daya Gamage, which is to establish the logistic hub in Romania with the support of other ministries for Sri Lankan spice products to further value add and export to the other European countries.

The Minister further explained the quality of the Sri Lankan spices, especially cinnamon and pepper products and their medicinal value. More and more spice products can be introduced to Europe through Romania and Sri Lanka can import their agricultural main products like sunflower seeds to Sri Lanka. Romania is one of the main countries producing wheat in the world. Hence Sri Lankan importers have huge opportunities to import these products.

Deputy Minister Anoma Gamage suggested signing of an MoU with universities in Romania as they are having high technology for the petroleum and refineries sector. Romania’s crude oil refining sector is the largest in south-eastern Europe in terms of operating capacity. Through this MoU, more opportunities will be taken to training people in the technical field in the Government sector. Hence, Sri Lankans can get more expertise from these sectors in future.