Romanian ambassador Liviu Bota has been awarded a French Legion of Honour national order in rank of officer, at a ceremony held in Vienna.
France's permanent representative with the UN and international organisations based in Vienna Francois-Xavier Deniau handed in to Bota the officer ensign of the Legion of Honour in the name of the French President.
France's permanent representative with the UN and international organisations based in Vienna Francois-Xavier Deniau handed in to Bota the officer ensign of the Legion of Honour in the name of the French President.
The recommendation for Bota's decoration was made by the state secretary for external relations in charge with cooperation within the French Speaking World Organisation in recognition of the sustained activity of Bota for the promotion of the cultural dimension of the French Speaking World Organisation and for his personal devotion to the values of Humanism, freedom and human rights.
The Legion of Honour is the highest state distinction in France that was established in 1802. It is awarded by the French President to French or foreign citizens, both civilians and military officers, for special merits in their fields of business.
The highest number of such order in the rank of officer is limited to 10,000. The Legion of Honour may also be awarded to heads of state or governments, Government members and foreign ambassadors that have rendered outstanding service to France.
Ambassador Bota was awarded a Faithful Service National Order in rank of Grand Officer by Romania's President in 200 0 and the Diplomatic Merit Order in rank of Grand Officer in 2007. Bota started his diplomatic career in 1961 after graduating from international affairs courses in Bucharest and Moscow and was posted with the permanent mission of Romania in New York in 1963- 1967.
In 1971 he became a UN international functionary. He founded and chaired the UN Institute for Disarmament (UNIDIR) and was adviser to the UN Under -Secretary for Human Rights, the chief of the UN Mission in Tajikistan, a special representative for the UN Secretary General in Georgia, and head of the UN observation mission in Georgia.
In early 1970s, the then communist authorities of the country forbade him from taking over the chairmanship of UNIDIR and placed him under house arrest for two years. Bota managed to leave Romania upon the intervention of the French Government and then French President Francois Mitterand. He was re-established a diplomat in 1999 and deployed as a permanent representative of Romania with international organisations headquartered in Vienna.
Under his 2001 chairmanship, the Permanent Council of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) discussed and agreed a series of decisions in important fields of the OSCE activity, including Serbia's comeback to the OSCE, the fight against terrorism, the launch of the reform of the OSCE, and the OSCE-UN-EU cooperation in Macedonia.
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