 I'm also wearing the green tie of the Irish presidency because I like it. And I like it also in a more political way. Ireland, it's a relationship that we appreciate a lot in Bucharest and the former Irish ambassador in Bucharest, which is president, I say hello because we had an excellent cooperation at the time it's true in my former capacity as chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Romanian Senate and having very good contacts with the committees on the European affairs and foreign affairs, the external relations of the Irish parliament. We share similar assessments, similar interests, European and Euro-Atlantic interests, both from Romania and Ireland. So we have a very strong common basis for making the assessments, including on the Eastern partnership, the topic that I want to present today. And this is the appropriate moment because we are speaking about Ireland having the presidency of the Council of the European Union and we are speaking about the former chairperson of the OSCE. This is a subject that which is dealt with professionally, here in Dublin. Why mentioning this topic here at the western end of Europe and speaking about the opposite end of the European continent, the East? Despite the geographical distance, according to our assessment, they are very important and serious topics which are relevant and key points of interest also for the western countries. And I want to make the reference because some of the topics that are having an impact and an influence also the points of interest and we are speaking about political and strategic and economic interests of the western countries including Ireland. We are speaking about a region, the eastern part of Europe, where you will find serious important political interests, serious security interests. You will find protracted conflicts. You will find energy security, serious interests, so things which are very relevant for the European agenda. Of course also for the Irish presidency. This is why it's a good opportunity for me to underline some aspects related to what we are calling starting with four years ago the Eastern Partnership of the European Union, a form of cooperation which includes the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Belarus. But I will start very briefly mentioning the fact that also for us, not only for us for Romania, when speaking about the Eastern Partnership, we are making reference in reality to the European political project from the beginning. And we are making this reference because according to the EU treaty, one of the articles is making the reference to the historic importance of ending the division of the European continent. This is still a consequence of the Second World War, a period when for instance in our case nobody asked us, the Romanians, if we want to stay on the other side of the world in the same boat with Stalin, instead of staying with Churchill, De Gaulle and some other big important Western European leaders. And it was a history that provoked some consequences within also our society, within our different generations. And I can tell you as a Romanian that we still have in our minds the expectation of our fathers or grandfathers and grandmothers saying that we are sure that the Americans will come, will free us and so on. In the 50s this was the fundamental expectation of the Romanian society that was abandoned on the other side of the world. This was transferred by generation by generation to the youngsters. This is why the possibility of the enlargement of the European Union, also with the Central Eastern European countries, also with Romania was first of all a historic moral act that was something that legitimately we were expecting. But when speaking about the separation and the division lines in Europe we are not looking to the Eastern partners just from a perspective of a simple cooperation because for those who have European identity, European expectations and they are performing the right reforms according to our sets of values, democratic values, I think this is a legitimate political assessment that we have to offer them the possibilities to advance through this European vision. Not everybody in the Eastern partnership have the interest of being sometime in the future even member of the European Union. It will not happen in any case tomorrow. Not everybody has the interest or let's say the vocation. But at least for those who have the vocation, the European vocation and the European clear interest and identity and once again fulfilling the criteria, the European perspective is something that must be taken into consideration. This is our assessment to express very briefly and this is a very important, very sensitive topic in a European Union which is today concentrating on how to manage properly the economic and social crisis, how to manage properly the enlargement process or not, how to deal with some other tough things, migration and so on. But for the Central Eastern European countries I think this is a very profound subject while speaking about the European political project. And this is also a subject where we are of course having a totally different attitude while looking to some European developments that in a still complicated Europe are reflecting xenophobic attitudes, populistic attitudes, things that we don't agree and we don't share. Of course as newcomers in Europe maybe we are still more enthusiastic about Europe but we are Europeans and we are interested that the European sets of values to continue, to be enlarged, to continue to be an example and to be taken also by some other nations. This is why on the merits of the Eastern Partnership I think is very important. We are interested to have on our Eastern neighbourhood stability, peace, good cooperation, regional cooperation, more prosperity and at the foundation the rule of law, human rights, democracy, rules, European rules to be part of the philosophy of those societies and for the future we will see. And when speaking about the Eastern Partnership, there are different speeds and manners and performances of those countries. This is why for instance we established the level of the European Union and the European capitals and Brussels the principles of making the distinction on the basis of the individual performance and on the principle of more for more. If you are doing more, if you are performing better, it's a good thing and it's a correct thing from us, from the Europeans to respond properly. We are in the middle of a process we are discussing about what will happen in the next summit dedicated to the Eastern Partnership, the so-called Vinyos Summit in November under the future presidency, the Lithuanian presidency. And you are perfectly aware about the fact that some of the countries in the Eastern Partnership are negotiating the association agreement. They are negotiating the free trade agreement. They are discussing about the visas. So it's in the same time the political association but also the economic association to our Western European system of values. And the last European Council in its conclusions stated inter alia as targets, as objectives, the conclusion of the negotiations for the association agreement with the Republic of Moldova until the summit in Vilnius. The possible signature of this agreement with Ukraine on the occasion of the Vinyos Summit. Also the finalizing or advancing good progress of negotiations with Armenia, with Georgia, with Azerbaijan. I can tell you that looking forward to different concrete aspects, I will start with Ukraine. We had very recently in the margin of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, a discussion on the so-called group of friends of Ukraine, co-sponsored by Slovakia and by Poland with the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. There is interest of having good and a closer cooperation based on the respect and implementation of the criteria. This was valid for everyone. Of course there are sensitive topics that we are perfectly aware. Speaking about justice in Brussels, the formula that is used is the selective justice. Speaking about some other important things that were reflected in the conclusions of the Council in last December. The expectation is that the Ukrainian authorities advance in respecting these recommendations for having the possibility of the signing of the signature of the agreement in November. The agreement was finished, it was negotiated and initialized already with Ukraine. So it's only a political decision right now to be taken or not if the signature will take place. There are different approaches in our EU family, there are different assessments. All in all the Europeans are interested to have a good cooperation with Ukraine. But on the nuances I can tell you that you will see a much firm attitude from some of the member states on the need of the respect of the rules and the criteria and maybe some nuanced positions which are more political and more strategic possibly we can mention them like this from some of the Centralist and European countries which are already member of the European Union. I will give the example of Romania, Ukraine is the biggest neighbor of our country. So we have a strategic interest that Ukraine will be step by step or we share step by step this common set of values. It's not simple and being the Eastern border of both EU and NATO Romania is in the position to understand in a more nuanced way the fact that when we are speaking about the former Soviet Union space where the things are more complex that it was the case with the Centralist and European countries. I think we have the temptation to look to this situation in a more strategic way. So we are open for the signature of the agreement without diminishing the expectations for the fulfillment of the criteria. We are not negotiating the criteria but I think maybe to have to take the proper political decision at the appropriate political moment this is let's say putting in balance all of those things. So we are part of those countries which are supportive in November for this act. The Republic of Moldova, you made a reference in your introductory presentation. Of course Romania is in the first line for the giving the support for the European path of the Republic of Moldova. We have a common origin we are speaking the same language with the major part of the population in the Republic of Moldova and we have a great sympathy for the efforts and the things that were done by the Republic of Moldova in the last years and in general terms the major part of the EU member states are saying that the Republic of Moldova was all those years until now the most active partner that made the most important progress from this point of view. The discussion today is related to if or not to have the signature of the agreement in Venus or to have at least the to have the initialing process of the agreement association agreement and of course finishing also the free trade agreement. And I think according to the assessments if the negotiations will finish under the Irish presidency and Ireland played already and can play to continue to play a very positive role from this point of view I think there are chances. It's true that during the past weeks some political crisis appeared once again within the coalition it's not necessarily something new and I think during all those years all the time in the end there were political resources to find the solution and to assure the stability and the continuation of the European project in the Republic of Moldova. Very recently three of my colleagues, ministers of foreign affairs from three EU member states visited Kishino. On the margin of the next foreign council in Brussels on 11 of March I will host together with my French counterpart the so-called group of friends of the Republic of Moldova precisely for having this political dialogue and encouraging them to continue to ensure stability, the political stability of the country and to continue the reforms. It is important because once again we are at the eastern border of EU and NATO so we have a fundamental interest of stability in the region of peaceful processes of the continuation of the European process in that country, in that region. So it's something very transparent from our side and it's something very legitimate from this point of view. On Georgia very fast I was part of the group five minister of foreign affairs that visited Georgia before the last elections. Even at that moment we launched in bilise the European expectations for having a correct electoral process and to give the support for the political forces engaged in the European and Euro-Atlantic process. It's not very easy once again. We are speaking about still a complex, complicated region with the protracted conflict in Georgia but once again Romania is constantly supportive for the European and Euro-Atlantic path of Georgia. This is not a surprise. So we will continue to adopt this attitude also through the exchanges, also through the expertise and support for the European processes, also through the parliamentary exchanges and so on. We hope also to have Armenia's finalization of the facilitation and readmission agreement and also very good progress and advance of the negotiation process with Azerbaijan. These are countries in an important region. There are some situations where Romania has important economic cooperation processes like related for instance to the energy security. For us one of the important projects on energy security is related to the Nabucco-Nabucco West Corridor which is linking Azerbaijan through Georgia going to Romania and Hungary. This is something that is related to diversification of the sources for the energy suppliers of our region including Romania. So this year it's really a year that can decide for many other years after this. This is why the Irish presidency is so important. This is why the next Lithuanian presidency is important because once again on one side we have a European Union that still has problems. We saw the last discussions I was in the Romanian delegation, the last European Council while discussing the financial framework for the next cycle of the European Union. I saw the different interests. I saw different manners of promoting the national interests. I didn't hear here unfortunately any reference to the principles, to the values, to the principles of solidarity within the European Union, only pragmatic approaches. So in this complex and still complicated European Union that I'm confident that in the future will refresh the spirit nevertheless we must speak and we must find the solution to advance in some other important processes which are part of the project of the European Union. We must speak to continue to speak about the enlargement. We must continue to speak and to advance on the Eastern neighborhood policy because otherwise we will finish to have a very selfish European Union to speak about only the huge invasion of migrants coming, I don't know, from East, from Central, Eastern European countries, from Romania, from Bulgaria, from outside and we will start to forget what is the foundation of the European Union. If we will not continue to put in place also our commitments concerning the enlargement in Southeast Europe, in the Balkans, we will make the mistake to choose another alternative than stability, peace, progress in the Balkans. Unfortunately today the Balkan region is in general terms or became a predictable region. This is a huge achievement now in the history because tomorrow or if not tomorrow the day after tomorrow the countries in the region will be part of the European and or Euro-Atlantic family. This became a predictable region, this is a huge achievement and Romania is very supportive for the continuation of the enlargement process in the region but in the same time we have the Eastern partnership, a less predictable, enlarged region. We are interested in more predictability, we are interested in having a good cooperation and this is why step by step, at least with those partners who are making reforms, who are very serious and despite the difficulties, despite the difficulties they are doing, committing and they are having progress, I think it's also a serious attitude from our side to be constant on our approach in what is the philosophy of the European project and the values which must prevail on our continent. So this is the essence of the position and the philosophy and the vision of the Romanian authorities and Romania. In this apparently very, very distanced region in the Eastern part, a big distance from the Western side but which in reality is very close and can provoke important consequences and I think when discussing by the way about the concerns of some Western countries like UK about migration after 1st of January 2014, if the politicians will don't understand that we have to be active in trying to help things which are happening somewhere in the Eastern side or somewhere else than Europe, those the same politicians will discover that really they will have problems on their national territory the day after tomorrow. So I think we have to be active there and to give the support there to try to have a large region of stability and progress and prosperous and sharing the same political and democratic values. Thank you very much for your attention and of course I'm waiting for the answers for the questions and I do my best to give the proper answers. Thank you.