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| RELATIONS BETWEEN ROMANIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA(12.09.2007) |
| (2007-09-13) |
| Last updated: 2007-09-14 16:41 EET |
A bigger budget allocated to the Romanian Foreign Ministry for salaries and investment is neither a luxury, nor a whim, says the chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Romanian Senate, Mircea Geoana.
“We need well motivated professional civil servants and the monthly wage is one of the things that motivate people. As far as Romania’s role in the region is concerned, it is absolutely clear that we can never give up hopes that the destinies of Romania and the Republic of Moldova will be united in a European context.”
Mircea Geoana was a Foreign Minister himself and he probably knows what he’s talking about.
The Foreign Policy Committee of the Senate has called incumbent Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu for hearings in a bid to overcome the cooling point in the relations with neighboring Republic of Moldova, a Romanian speaking, former Soviet republic, east of Romania. Mircea Geoana’s plea for a deep going reform of the Romanian consular system comes against the background of accusations by Moldovan officials according to which the Romanian consul in Chisinau has taken bribe from Moldovan citizens in exchange for entry visas. Bucharest has termed the accusations as a provocation, underlying though that they should be taken as a signal of alarm for Romanian diplomacy. According to Romanian foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu the consul in question did make mistakes, though he’s not guilty of bribe taking. What he is guilty of is employing the Balkan system of relations, by favoring one particular travel agency working with the consulate in Chisinau.
That consul will never return to Chisinau, because he put the Romanian consulate in an unfavorable light. The real problem of the Romanian consulate in Chisinau is coping with the huge number of visa applications filed by Moldovan citizens. Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu:
“The solution is not to expand the activity of the Consulate in Chisinau, which, no matter how many counters it will have. The solution would be to open two new consulates especially for solving visa applications, to give up the online scheduler and introduce a system of programming interviews by phone.”
As for the two new consulates it seems that they will eventually be opened in Balti, in the north and Cahul in the south. At least that’s what the president of Moldova Vladimir Voronin promised. At present, however Voronin denied having made that promise.
(Mihai Radulescu)
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