Loading ...Former Israeli Ambassador Meir Rosenne, who was born Romanian, voiced satisfaction with the statement made by Romania’s President on the study of the Holocaust in Romanian schools and the education of the new generations in Romania in the spirit of tolerance.
Meir Rosenne, Israel’s former Ambassador to the US and France, was one of the personalities to whom President Traian Basescu handed awards during the meeting in Jerusalem with the members of the Romanian community in Israel.
“I am impressed and regard this award as being conferred not on me, but on all those people who unfortunately were not able to live and see the setting up of the State of Israel,” Meir Rosenne told.
Referring to Romania’s involvement in the peace process in the Middle East, Meir Rosenne mentioned the diplomatic support given by Romania to Israel with a view to getting out of the diplomatic isolation it was subject to after the 1967 war. Meir Rosenne also evoked Romania’s contribution to the historic visit paid by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Israel as a first step to signing the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
“Romania has an important part to play in the Middle East, President Basescu has a well- known diplomatic capacity and, when Israel was through hard times, sea captain Traian Basescu turned out to be a friend of Israel’s,” said Rosenne.
The Romanian born diplomat emphasized the fact that one cannot impose peace in the Middle East, but that Israel’s neighbours must be encouraged to accept Israel as a state that has the right to existence and to have normal relations with Israel.
Eulogizing the Romanian delegation leaving the room in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied the Holocaust this year at the Forum in Davos, Meir Rosenne noted that, by virtue of the part it plays in the EU, Romania should encourage other European states to make the public statements President Basescu had the courage to make.
“We are surprised at some western states not yet having the courage to make such statements or adopt economic sanctions against Iran in order to convince the regime in Tehran that, in the 21st century, one cannot threaten a state with destruction, as Ahmadinejad does, and that one must put an end to producing nuclear weapons for threatening the entire world,” said Meir Rosenne at the end of the interview.
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