Loading ...This year's edition of the Romanian ambassadors' annual meeting, to be held September 2-3, will focus on expanding economies and dynamic diplomacies.
Unlike the previous years, when foreign ministers of other countries would be invited to deliver speeches to the meeting, this year the meeting has a working character and it will be carried out in workshops that will tackle such issues as the response of diplomacy to the current global economic challenges; energy diplomacy; promoting Romanian products on foreign markets; positioning Romania in the world's investment flows; the Lisbon Strategy; the part of public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy in the management of worldwide challenges and the conduct of political dialogue.
Working groups will also be devoted to discussing the issues of the Romanian community in the European economic environment, consular activities and the guidelines requested to be followed for Romania's accession in the future to the Schengen Area. Attending the conversations during the meeting will also be officials for the governmental and non-governmental sectors, including officials for the business community.
'The main aim of the meeting is identifying the best opportunities and ways of promoting the Romanian economy worldwide to capitalise on the economic growth of the country of the past years and to back up the expansion of domestic capitals in the context of the new international status of Romania and the latest global and European developments. This year's approach focuses on concrete topics and themes and the event has been designed to back up the priority objective of Romania's foreign policy in relation to supporting Romania's economic growth,' the Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) reports in a note.
Romanian Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu introduced economic diplomacy as one of the main priorities of his office when he took office.
At the previous annual meetings of the Romanian diplomacy, besides working sessions behind closed doors, there were open sessions where invited to deliver speeches were renowned world diplomats, including France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner; UK Foreign Minister David Miliband; Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, and Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn. At the 2006 annual meeting, a video message was received from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
At this year's edition, a video message will be received from French European Affairs State Secretary Jean-Pierre Jouyet.
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