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Romania is expected to help in accelerating the negotiation of the Indonesia and European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (I-EU CEPA) which will enter the 8th round. As stated by the Expert Staff for Politics, Law and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Teuku Faizasyah, in Jakarta on Thursday (28/06/2019), at a reception which marked the end of the first rotating Presidency of Romania to the Council of the European Union. In addition, Teuku Faizasyah also hopes there will be a lot of progress afor the 8th round of the I-EU CEPA negotiations and there will be no more rounds of negotiations.

“And I called on Romanian support to expedite the conclusions of the ambitious and the achievable Indonesia-European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (I-EU CEPA). I’m pleased to learn on the many progress of the I-EU CEPA negotiations last week in Jakarta that there was the 8th round of negotiations. Let us hope that during the next round of negotiation, we can achieve more progress and we don’t need more round of negotiations,” said Teuku Faizasyah.

During the event, the Romanian Ambassador to Indonesia Valerica Epure handed over the stick of the Presidency of the European Union Council to the Finnish Ambassador to Indonesia, Jari Sinkari, which marked the start of the Finnish Presidency for the European Union Council. Romania holds the first 6 months of the Trio Presidency of the European Union Council, which starts on 1 January 2019, followed by Finland from July - December 2019 and Croatia from January - June 2020. (VOI / AHM)