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This is one more important meeting between the United States and the European Union, mostly security-related. For me, it is my 10th participation in these meetings. Today we are going to make a step forward. We have welcomed our American partners and friends and I would like to start by expressing my thanks to the Romanian presidency for hosting this event. The European Union and the United States have established unbreakable relations during the last decades and we shall continue working on that, deepening and enhancing our cooperation. So now, we have to work together on border management, security and migration. During the last years we have made great progress and I am very happy to say that we have achieved it by establishing trustful relations between us. We are both confronted with the same challenges. We know that terrorism and migration have taken global dimensions now. So, global cooperation is more than necessary. And the partnership between the European Union and the United States is of utmost importance. We are also going to discuss visa policy. I know that in Romania, the citizens are waiting for the moment when they can move, travel freely to the United States. We are running the last mile in this area. But also, even though it is not in the context of our discussions, I would like to send a clear message to our Romanian friends, as very soon Romania should be a member state of the Schengen zone. Being politically responsible for that, I have worked very closely with the Romanian Authorities. Romania has fulfilled all its commitments, so we hope that the Member States are very close to opening the doors of the European Union to Romanian citizens.