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US, Romania Ink Defense Cooperation Pact for Black Sea Region

© AFP 2023 / DANIEL MIHAILESCURomanian frigate "Regina Maria" personnel with the NATO Standing Maritime Group-2 keep watch during a military drill on the Black Sea, 60km from Constanta city March 16, 2015
Romanian frigate Regina Maria personnel with the NATO Standing Maritime Group-2 keep watch during a military drill on the Black Sea, 60km from Constanta city March 16, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Romanian and US officials have concluded a strategic dialogue, with an agreement to upgrade NATO air and sea defenses in the Black Sea and establish a Romanian-led ground-force brigade, US Department of State spokesman Mark Toner announced in a press release.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (C) poses with officials and military personnel in front of a NATO unmanned drone outside PGE National Stadium, the venue of the NATO Summit, in Warsaw, Poland, July 8, 2016. - Sputnik International
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — "The two partners will build upon successes such as completing the Missile Defense site in Deveselu and work together and in NATO to ensure swift and full implementation of the Warsaw Summit commitments by 2017," the release explained on Tuesday.

At the recent NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, alliance members agreed to establish a Romanian-led multinational brigade and conduct joint training of air and maritime forces, according to the release.

The release also emphasized the development of natural gas reserves in the Black Sea and plans to connecting those reserves to Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Moldova.

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