It is a priority for Romania to export to countries such as those of the Persian Gulf and Russia, economic analyst Ionel Blănculescu said, who considers that we should focus our exports on other areas besides the European Union: "Countries in the Persian Gulf area, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, countries which have been friends to Romania for a long time, have sympathy for our country, and I have personally met, during business meetings, ministers and other people with responsibilities in those countries, former students of our universities, who are inviting the Romanian state to strengthen the business ties with the area in question. I remember that in a meeting about the oil sector, my interlocutors from Qatar were telling me that the Oil and Gas Institute of Ploieşti is considered as the Harvard of oil in the Middle East".

Mr. Blănculescu said that he had the opportunity to go to Moscow where he found that Russian entrepreneurs are "true businesspeople, of international caliber", schooled in the best Western business universities.

"I have an excellent relationship with the Russian business environment, where I am providing consulting to a local company. I regularly attend the events of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest and of the Russian business sector in Romania. The Russians are present on the Romanian market, they own plants, they have big businesses. They are present in the mineral resources and metallurgic industry.

The Romanian economic environment needs to be encouraged to develop its relationships with Russian entrepreneurs", the analyst says.

Ionel Blănculescu reminds of the interest expressed by the head of the German diplomacy, Guido Westerwelle, towards developing the relationships with Russia. As soon as Vladimir Putin won a new term as president, Guido Westerwelle announced that Germany wants to streng