BUCHAREST - Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase hosted dinner in honor of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday.
Turkish Industry and Trade Minister Ali Coskun, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler, Culture and Tourism Minister Erkan Mumcu, deputies, bureaucrats and some businessmen were also in attendance at the dinner.
Erdogan, who went to Romania earlier in the day, was welcomed by an official ceremony by Nastase.
Turkish and Romanian prime ministers held a tete-a-tete meeting and then presided meetings between the delegations.
Erdogan and Nastase later held a joint press conference.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said that relations between Turkey and Romania would reach the future in a very different way after Turkey started accession talks with the EU.
In the press conference Romanian Prime Minister Nastase said that Romania would extend necessary support to Turkey's EU membership.
Erdogan was then received by Romanian President Ion Iliescu.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and Nastase later attended the meeting of Turkish-Romanian Business Council and addressed businessmen of the two countries in Romanian capital Bucharest. Turkey and Romania could lay energy line beneath the sea, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in the meeting.
Nastase, in his part, called on Turkish businessmen to invest in Romania and expressed belief that Turkish investments would increase after Thursday's meetings.
(BRC) 20.05.2004