Loading ...President Traian Basescu said on Sunday ahead of the state visit to Israel that the peace in the Middle East is essential for Romania, because eof the closeness of this area to Romania and of the Romanian nationals who are living in Israel and in Arab countries.
‘Definitely, the peace in the Middle East is essential for Romania also for its own national security,” said President Traian Basescu on the international airport Henri Coanda.
‘Definitely, the peace in the Middle East is essential for Romania also for its own national security,” said President Traian Basescu on the international airport Henri Coanda.
‘The visit takes place after I have met with all the leaders of the countries in the region: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and after the visits paid to Bucharest by the King of Jordan and by the President of the Palestinian Authority.
All these meetings allowed us to analyse the Middle East realities with each head of state, and it seems to me that, at present, the visit to Israel is extremely opportune. We are well informed about the viewpoints of the states in the region pertaining to the solutions for stepping up the peace process in the Middle East,’ said the Romanian president.
Basescu said that he will also meet with representatives of the business climate and with Romanian nationals who are living in Israel.
The Romanian delegation also includes Foreign Affairs Minister Cristian Diaconescu and Tourism Minister Elena Udrea.
President Base scu starts on Sunday a state visit to Israel at the invitation of Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.The visit also includes a pilgrimage to the sacred places of Jerusalem.
President Base scu starts on Sunday a state visit to Israel at the invitation of Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.The visit also includes a pilgrimage to the sacred places of Jerusalem.
President Basescu is scheduled to meet on Monday and Tuesday Israeli President Shimon Peres, Chairman of the Israeli Knesset Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
President Basescu will also visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, meet officials of the Romanian community of Israel and attend the opening of a Romanian-Israeli business forum.
President Basescu will also visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, meet officials of the Romanian community of Israel and attend the opening of a Romanian-Israeli business forum.
Recently, Israel’s Ambassador in Bucharest, Oren David, gave an exclusive interview to Agerpres in which he says that this is President Basescu’s first visit to Israel, stressing that it will be an occasion for mutual information exchange and of assessment of the bilateral ties.
Ambassador Oren David also said that the relations between the two countries are excellent in all the field and they can be forged as regards cooperation the field of environmental technology, solar energy, in which Israel has advanced technology.
Romania was among the first states to open diplomatic ties with the State of Israel, which was created on May 14, 1948, under the decision of the UN General Assembly of November 29, 1947.
Romania was among the first states to open diplomatic ties with the State of Israel, which was created on May 14, 1948, under the decision of the UN General Assembly of November 29, 1947.
On June 1, 1948, diplomatic ties were established at a legacy level. On January 12, 1949 then minister plenipotentiary Reuven Rubin presented his credential letters in Bucharest, and on September 21, 1949, Nicolae Cioroiu was appointed Romania’s ambassador in Tel Aviv. On August 17, 1969, the legacies were promoted to embassies.
Political, diplomatic, cultural and economic ties between Romania and Israel have strengthened along years, and in June 1998, 50 years of uninterrupted diplomatic ties between Romania and Israel were celebrated.
Among the highlight of the Romanian-Israeli relationship before 1989 were the visit to Romania of Israeli prime ministers Golda Meir – May 4-7, 1972; Menahem Begin – August 26 – 30, 1977 and Ytzak Shamir, August 17-20, 1987.
Before 1990, no presidential visits were paid. The first high-level contact happened on September 2-5, 1991, when then Romanian president Ion Iliescu paid a state visit to Israel. Iliescu revisited Israel on March 22-24, 2004. Romania’s former president Emil Constantinescu visited Israel, January 3-7, 2000.
Romania’s imports from Israel are mostly high and medium-tech industrial products, including electrical machinery and devices; chemicals; air navigation equipment and devices; pharmaceuticals; aluminum and articles thereof; plastics; optical instruments and devices; special tools and machine tools; knitted clothing; organic fertilisers, and medical and surgery furniture.
Israeli companies are involved in many cooperation projects conducted in Romania in the fields of infrastructure (road construction and modernisation, water supply systems); industry (aeronautics, electronics, chemistry, metallurgy, textiles, foodstuff, electrical machinery and devices); wood processing and furniture making; construction (office buildings and homes); agriculture (irrigation, green houses, wine growing, seeds); tourism and services (insurance, finance and banking services, medical centres).
Trade between Romania and Israel was standing at $420.43 million as of November 2008, $192.43 million worth of Romanian exports and $228 million worth of Israeli imports.
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