Romanian Ambassador Nicolae Goia has said that Pakistan and Romania have longstanding cooperation in political, economic, cultural and scientific fields. The bilateral trade is valued at $80-100 million per annum. Delivering a lecture at Strategic Vision Institute (SVI), Nicolae Goia hailed CPEC as a major economic project saying many countries would join it. Romania works to expand relationship with Pakistan particularly in economic and defense sectors; it is also exploring the prospects of benefiting from China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC).