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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cotroceni presidential palace

'Mr. Prime Minister, thank you so much for visiting us. I am looking forward to continuing our discussion of last year. I'm still under the impression of the talks I had with you and the President.

I hope that our discussions now will be just as fruitful and you can be sure that we will stay one of your best friends, as we have been since long,' President Traian Basescu told Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he welcomed on Wednesday at the Cotroceni presidential palace. In his turn, the Israeli Prime Minister said that the President Basescu's visit to Israel in 2009 left a strong impression on him.

'You advanced some very good ideas, I must admit it, and this is an opportunity, as you said too, for us to continue our discussions and even more, to strengthen the solid and natural friendship between our nations,' added Natanyahu.

Traian Basescu said he had been impressed that at the reception given by President Shimon Peres there had been over one hundred of Romanian speakers; the Israeli Prime Minister replied that there are 400,000 Romania-born people in Israel.

Netanyahu also highlighted the fact that Romania and Israel have a lot to learn from one another and that talks with the Romanian Prime Minister had been very good, focusing on areas such as energy, agriculture, medicine and tourism. Before being received at the Cotroceni Palace, the Israeli Prime Minister had official talks at the Victoria Palace with his Romanian counterpart Emil Boc.

PM Boc: Romania s supporting two states for two nations solution in Middle East

Romania is reaffirming its support for a two states two nations solution in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian issue, Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Wednesday after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Government House in Bucharest.'In the spirit of the constant stance always advocated by Romania in the Middle East peace process, I once again reaffirmed Romania's support for the existence of two states and two nations living peacefully and securely together, without unilateral solutions. A solution negotiated by the parties involved is the only one likely to provide a real and solid basis for sustainable and proper peace, That is why I underscored the need for negations to resume as soon as possible,' said Boc.

The Israeli prime minister is visiting Romania on Wednesday, the first such visit to Romania during the past 20 years.

Jerusalem Post noted Netanyahu has scheduled visits to Romania and Bulgaria within a diplomatic campaign against UN's possible recognition of a Palestinian state. Netanyahu will also visit Poland and Hungary, as the four former communist countries are among the most friendly countries toward Israel in the EU.Poland and Hungary are among the 18 states (including seven European Union member states) that voted in 2009 against the UN General Assembly's resolution calling for independent investigations by Israel and Hamas into the allegations of war crimes committed by both sides during Israel's bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip, in late 2008-early 2009. Romania, Bulgaria and 13 other EU member states abstained.

The UN General Assembly's vote on the recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state is scheduled for its September session.

Israel is interested in a stronger cooperation with Romania in the fields of agriculture and food industry

Israel is interested in a stronger cooperation with Romania in the fields of agriculture and food industry, a larger presence of the Romanian products on the Israeli market leading to a drop in prices, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday at Victoria Palace, giving the example of cottage cheese, stressing he reserved a special discussion with Prime Minister Emil Boc about this topic.

' We have discussed some of them, security, water, agriculture and we will resume them in November during the intergovernmental meeting in Jerusalem . Israel is facing now a lot of difficulties and challenges, such as Iran or Hezbollah, but those who have travelled for the past couple of weeks in Israel saw that the public opinion is focused on cottage cheese, due to its soaring price,' PM Netanyahu told the press conference held jointly with his counterpart Emil Boc.

He indicated that there is not enough competition on the Israeli dairy products market and Romania can take advantage of this opportunity due to its agricultural potential. 'Water is scarce in our country and plentiful in yours and so is land, and we believe a little more competition in these agricultural and food industry fields is most welcome. Competition leads to lower prices and better products so this benefits both parties. ... Romania is two hours away from Israel and we want to encourage the Romanian producers of various goods to try the Israeli market more often,' the Israeli PM said.

There were more protests held Israel in 2011 against the rising price for cottage cheese, a staple product in this country. Dozens of thousands of Israeli interacted on Facebook to boycott this product and the matter was debated even in the Knesset, making the large producing companies to slightly cut prices. The Knesset [Israel Parliament] revealed a report according to which the price of food in this country have soared by an average 26 percent for the past year, whereas the wages reported a meagre 2.6 percent increase. The Israeli cottage cheese is made up of non-pressed curd. It is very white, soft, not very salty and it sells fresh. It is traded in Romania as 'homemade cheese.'

Romanian-Israeli governmental meeting to be held this November in Jerusalem

The Governments of Romania and Israel will hold a joint meeting in November to discuss joint projects in agriculture, energy, infrastructure, defense, tourism, healthcare, environmental issues and culture, Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Wednesday after a meeting with Israeli counterpart .

'We're decided to impose a new, pragmatic level of our bilateral collaboration,' said Boc.

Netanyahu said he wishes to encourage Romanian producers to export more to Israel, adding authorities in both countries want to expand their economic relations.'Israel likes Romania, it is a unique relationship we will try to expand,' Netanyahu said.

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