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'North Africa and Eastern Europe: perspectives and shared experiences' seminar, a proof of Romania's solidarity

The Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Teodor Baconschi, said on Wednesday, on the occasion of the opening of the international seminar 'North Africa and Eastern Europe: perspectives and shared experiences' that Romania expresses its solidarity with the countries in the Mediterranean basin and in the Arab world who fight for democracy because it also has 'the recent memory of a closed regime, and also the experience of efforts crowned by success'.

'After a totalitarian hiatus of half a century, Romania resumed its democratic track after the fall of communist regime in 1989. Romania, the same as other Eastern European countries, has learned from its democratic transformation, started 20 years ago, that managing expectations is crucial in the transition period. It's about aspirations for freedom, justice, dignity, unlimited assertion of the individual and of course prosperity. Like other nations in Eastern Europe, we have the recent memory of a closed, oppressive regime, and we can foresee easily, because we have passed through them, political, social and economic changes the Egyptian and Tunisian societies must implement, but at the same time we have experienced these efforts with success. This gives us confidence in Egypt and Tunisia success as well, and I assure you of Romanians and of the entire European Union help, understanding and empathy', the foreign minister said.

He argued that the aforementioned seminar is a proof of the importance attached by Romania to the chances of democracy to succeed in the entire Mediterranean basin and in the Arab world in general.

'It is about historical opportunities, the countries of North Africa and the Middle East can eliminate the persistent an disagreeable myth that representative democracy would not be compatible with the Arab world. Tunisia and Egypt will demonstrate, I hope, through elections this fall, that democracy can be built based on an internal impetus in southern Mediterranean and in the wider region, ' Baconschi added.

He also said that the main purpose of the addresses and debates in the seminar is the exchange of knowledge and transfer of democratic experience.

'Romanian political experience to be presented by the representatives of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and of other independent institutes and associations, will be confronted with the knowledge that comes from Egyptian and Tunisian political practice, but also that of other societies on the Asian American, African or European continents. (...) A political regime is ultimately nothing else than a legitimate and sustainable rapport between citizens and political authority, and elections are the cornerstone of any government democratically-oriented. Therefore, the first elections after the dictatorship, which we call founding elections, pose a double challenge, a challenge for the people called to the ballot box, and a challenge for public or civil institutions called upon to organize the electoral process. Democracy is born in the spirit of interaction between the two as a form of free, voluntary and orderly co-existence ', Teodor Baconschi also said.

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