and south american nationals trying to reach the united states. dozens of people were also injured in the incident. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the face of it, russia s war on ukraine has galvanised a strong and united european response sanctions on moscow, weapons supplies to kyiv and a readiness to host millions of ukrainians fleeing the war. but scratch the surface and there are significant variations. romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania 7 as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia aga
nothing unusual about this. let them to speak to its schedule, as i said clearly at the top there is absolutely no reason for beijing to react differently in this regard. thanks, hi, john. i have a question on the summit of the democracies. iraq is the only arab country participating. more adhere to democratic values. summit for democracy gives us a chance to speak at a multi-lateral platform with many nations about what we are all doing to enhance transparency and accountability and abide by the consent of the government, and we are delighted that iraq can participate, and we ll see what the next one looks like and who gets invited to attend and who participates. but we would hope that all democracies as they look at the outcome of this week will want to follow suit. also in israel, you see the attitude of prime minister netanyahu disrespentful of the president? i mean, he s known to not have a good relationship with democratic presidents, including president obama, he
why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania? as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia against ukraine, in the front line of the efforts of the international community to counter the effects of this war. and the effort of romania was very strong in support of ukraine on very many dimensions, and this is very much appreciated by ukraine. this is very much appreciated by our partners. i had the pleasure these days to talk with my counterpart, james cleverly, we have signed today a very important document, a joint declaration on updating our strategic partnership between romania and the united kingdom. yeste
as the continuity candidate, but, in the end, onlyjust beat his nearest rival kate forbes by four percentage points. now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the face of it, russia s war on ukraine has galvanised a strong and united european response sanctions on moscow, weapons supplies to kyiv and a readiness to host millions of ukrainians fleeing the war. but scratch the surface and there are significant variations. romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania 7 as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of
romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania? as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia against ukraine, in the front line of the efforts of the international community to counter the effects of this war. and the effort of romania was very strong in support of ukraine on very many dimensions, and this is very much appreciated by ukraine. this is very much appreciated by our partners. i had the pleasure these days to talk with my counterpart, james cleverly, we have signed today a very important document, a joint declaration on updating our