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| PRESIDENT TRAIAN BASESCU IN ISRAEL 02/06/2009 |
| (2009-06-02) |
| Last updated: 2009-06-03 15:16 EET |
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace in the Middle East and the Holocaust were the key topics approached on Monday by president of Romania Traian Basescu in talks with Israeli officials. He met his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman. The Romanian president emphasised that 2009 was the 62nd year of steady relations between Romania and Israel, in spite of recent history which, the Romanian official said, referring to the communist years in particular, was not without thorny issues. But Basescu stressed that Romania supported peace building efforts in the Middle East. Traian Basescu:
“The message that I bring to Jerusalem is that both on its own, and as a member of the European Union, Romania supports the political efforts aimed at building peace in the Middle East, a fair and long-lasting peace able to guarantee the security of Israel.”
Traian Basescu offered to his Israeli counterpart a Romanian history textbook, illustrating that the Holocaust topic is studied in the Romanian education system. Shortly after this moment, he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, where he observed a moment of silence. During the meeting of the two presidents, Shimon Peres congratulated Romania on its commitment to studying the Holocaust and on Romanian officials' leaving the UN conference hall as the president of Iran was giving an address in which denied the Holocaust. Shimon Peres said that was a noble thing to do, and said that, as a NATO and EU member, Romania may influence the confrontation between what he named the free world and the Iranian tyranny and its hegemonic aspirations.
Shimon Peres also added that Israel was grateful to Romania for allowing hundreds of thousands of Jews to emigrate from Romania, to make up what is today the third-largest community in Israel. Romania, the Israeli president added, is the cradle of pluralism, a country with a sound system of values, which has preserved its identity and traditions.
Which is why, the Israeli official concluded, the space between the Jewish question mark and the Romanian exclamation mark was able to give birth to personalities such as Elie Wiesel, Marcel Iancu, Paul Celan, Yitzak Ben-Aharon among others.
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