Mircea Marian: "I don’t usually pay too much attention to President Basescu’s farcical remarks, that he serenely lets loose in foreign affairs issues”
But the fact that Romania’s President, Traian Basescu, suggested that the United States attitude towards the Kosovo situation is similar to what the USSR did in 1968, in Czechoslovakia, is just something that easily surpasses every other absurd thing he ever stated.
Basescu was asked in Robert Turcescu’s TV show, why did he still comply with international laws if the United States, France and Germany disobey the regulations. The President serenely replied “Let me remind you of Czechoslovakia, ’68 (…)It’s our history, no matter who used to run this country”
Even with such statements, I am fully aware that the polls will favour Basescu, due to the hysterical climax created by certain politicians, in the past few days. So then, how can we see a difference between Basescu and Ion Iliescu, the former president of Romania, who said on the same very Monday that the European Union is “filthy” and “infect”?
In respect to the attitude shown by Basescu and other politicians that supported him these days, I find two things to be extremely severe and dangerous. First, I can see how impossible it was for them, out of campaigning reasons, to aknowledge Kosovo’s independence. But all this was a completely unnecessary circus, especially the inane and useless declaration of the Romanian Parliament. We should have kept a safety exit, as did Bulgaria and Slovakia. Both countries have significant minorities on their territory and for the moment, do not recognize the newly created state, but also said that a reevaluation of the Kosovo issue will occur over the next few months.
And if someone believes it was our duty to help our serb friends, they should see how Romanians are being treated in Voivodina and that recently, the Belgrad Patriarchy became an allied to Moscow and criticized the birth of Basarabia’s Metropolitan Church.
Secondly, what worries me is that we have a president who cannot keep himself from hitting the Romania’s most important bolsterers. I was one of the few who appreciated the fact that President Basescu tried to bring the American soldiers in Romania and was disappointed in the Prime Ministers decision to retreat Romanian troops from Irak without even consulting our allies. Right now, I’m absolutely stupefied when I see that the same Romanian President becomes the defender of the Russian cause and gives international law lessons to the Americans.
Throughout the “glop” that sums up the Romanian politicians, such alliance break-ups would go unnoticed, as a normal situation. In terms of international politics, nobody ever says anything to you, but they all remember what you did, for a long time.
I don’t know whether the French, the Germans and the English took the right decision when they acknowledged Kosovo’s independence. But they are our main allies and it would have been better if our politicians were more discreet, instead of barking at them, from the other side of the fence.
Basescu’s loose mouth can sometimes be more harmful than the disastrous work of our foreign affairs Minister, mister Cioroianu.
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