PM Ponta: In this complicated region, Romania represents stronghold of security, stability and predictability

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, on Monday, in the opening of the Regional Cyber Security Summit, said that Romania represents a stronghold of security in a complicated region, where difficult wars are being carried out, especially in the energy area.

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"In this complicated region, where Romania represents a stronghold of security, stability, predictability, we have a few wars we are carrying out at the same time. Fortunately, there aren't conventional wars, as is unfortunately happening in the east of Ukraine and in other areas, but there are wars that are as difficult. We have, in the first place, a war in energy and I was often saying that the main weapon of the Russian Federation in this war isn't represented by aircraft or tanks or missiles, but is represented by gas and energy with which they can blackmail the region and Europe," Ponta said at the Palace of Parliament.

In what concerns cyber security, the Prime Minister pointed out that cyberattacks take place every minute, but there are specialists who manage to block them.

"Each minute, each second there are attacks on the data systems, on the advanced technological, communication systems, which some people, whom you never see on TV, whom the press doesn't write about, but who exist (...) and manage to block, providing us the capacity of using the internet and the television and the control system of air and railways transports," Ponta maintained.

The Prime Minister underscored the importance of the partnership between Romania and the USA in ensuring the cyber security.

"The opportunity we now have to collaborate and be together with the world leader, namely the US government, the US companies, is an enormous opportunity...