FOREIGN POLICY

A. Foreign policy objectives

The foreign policy will concentrate on protecting the social and economic interests of Romanian citizens as well as on promoting and protecting Romania’s economic, political and military interests, in accordance with its geostrategic position. The foreign policy should imply an active participation in institutional and cultural construction of Greater Europe.

According to Romania’s economic, political and military interests on long term, the foreign policy will concentrate on achieving the following objectives:

• development of bilateral and multilateral relations
• good neighborhood and regional cooperation
• promotion of economic diplomacy
• extending the cultural diplomacy
• dinamization of the relations with diaspora, preservation of natural and cultural identity

Romania’s foreign policy  will take into account the observation of the following conditions:

• cohesion at both EU and bilateral level - among the strategic objectives of foreign policy of both Romania and EU and NATO member countries
• interministerial coordination and strengthening the communication within the Government in order to confer substance, credibility and coherence to foreign policy, correlation and integration of sector policies
• observation and effective implementation of the commitments undertaken within NATO.

A1. At the level of developing the bilateral relations, the Romanian Government will take into account:

• priority consolidation of the relations with EU member states and with SUA;
• development of economic, technical scientific and cultural cooperation with China, Western Balkan space, central Asia, Middle East and Latin America countries;
• consolidation and extension of the relations with Vatican, Israel and Japan.

A2.  At the level of the relations with international organizations, and of the development of multilateral relations, the Romanian Government will implement the following policies:

• Romania’s integration within the European Union according to the calendar undertaken unilaterally by the Romanian Government in 2000. In this respect, the institutional reform, mainly within the judiciary and public administration fields will have to be accelerated within the period 2005 – 2006 in order to create the support pillar that contributes to the finalization of the accession negotiations and effective implementation of the obligations undertaken within the negotiations chapters;
• Consolidation of Romania’s position within NATO, at the same time with compliance with the undertaken commitments and association within joint actions, including offering and developing the infrastructure and logistics facilities for NATO troops;
• Involvement of Romanian diplomacy within the restructuring of the international system of security, economic cooperation  and adapting the norms and international law principles to the evolutions determined by the globalization process. There will be granted attention to the reform of UN structures, namely to the resizing of commissions and its specialized bodies as well as to the enlargement of the Security Council  with new permanent members such as Japan and Germany;
• Sustaining the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, as well as the European Court of Human Rights, including the respect of its decisions.

In approaching the diplomacy of globalization we should take into consideration the following:

• Acquiring for Romania of the status of OECD member;
• More active involvement within the activity of WTO, OSCE,EU, NATO and within UN specialized structures ;
• Dynamic proposals in order to elect Romania as headquarters for different Secretariats of UN Conventions / Protocols, OSCE programs, EU, WTO, OECD as well as for organizing in Romania some international landmark reunions under the auspices and financed by international organizations.

B. The Romanian Government will develop relations of good neighborhood and regional cooperation within the South Eastearn European and Black Sea space by:

• Promoting the good neighborhood and cooperation relations with the states of South Eastern Europe in order to achieve the stability plan for peace assurance, consolidation of democracy, respect for human rights and economic prosperity
• Protecting Romania and European Union’s interests within the South Eastern European space and solving in a coherent and dynamic way the problems with Ukraine on the basis of public international law norms;
• Promoting the relations with the Republic of Moldova on the basis of a pro active orientation that aims on the one hand at the respect of human rights, consolidation of democratic framework, and of economic reforms, and on the other hand sustaining the Romanian culture. In this respect, Romania will orient its assistance towards granting scholarships, sustaining the Romanian cultural rights, supporting the activities that sustain the implementation of democratic reforms and the respect of human rights. Romania will monitor the strict observation of bilateral agreements.
• Cooperation within the SEECP in order to promote the stabilization and association process initiated by the European Union for the states within the Western Balkans and establishing a structural relation between EU and SEECP.
• Capitalization of the mechanisms and resources of SECI Center to fight organized crime, and to promote some coherent policies to fight the unconventional risks threatening the security within region
• Strengthening the cooperation within the Organization of Economic Cooperation of the Black Sea,  in order to start off and efficiently implement already agreed upon projects(energy, financial banking system, transport, tourism) for the purpose of connecting in a more efficient way its activity to the national economy priorities and Romanian businessmen’ interests
• Use of infrastructure, existing installations and of the Romanian specialists as advantage in increasing Romania’s involvement within the regional energy security policy; transport, storage, processing and commercialization of electric energy, oil, gas).

C. Parliamentarian diplomacy

The Romanian Government will cooperate with the Parliament to settle the mechanisms of information, communication, information management and monitoring in order to promote Romania’s economic and political interests in a coherent manner, by bilateral and multilateral Parliamentarian relations ,as well as to control the way in which the Parliamentarian and Governmental initiatives at the level of economic and political cooperation can be synchronized and sustained in a mutual way.

D. Economic diplomacy

The Romanian Government will cooperate with the Presidency, Romanian Parliament and the business community in order to:

• elaborate a joint action strategy  upon promoting Romania’s economic interests abroad;
• clarify and settle the mechanisms of communication, information management and cooperation within the structures of central public administration, as well as among these, Parliament and business men associations

E. Cultural diplomacy

The cultural diplomacy represents a base to promote the bilateral relations for a better knowledge of Romanian culture abroad. To this purpose, the Romanian Government will adopt the following measures:

• Elaboration of an action plan for the expansion of cultural diplomacy
• Expanding the Romanian cultural centers abroad especially within the member states of the Organization for Economic development and cooperation
• Establishing the project management within the diplomatic centers that would facilitate the organization of cultural events and setting up the cultural and research centers subordinated to diplomatic centers.

F. Improvement of the relations with diaspora, preservation of national and cultural identity

• Monitoring the way of approaching the Romanian communities abroad, especially those within Ukraine, Serbia and Transnistria area.
• Allocation of funds to support the education units at all levels, cultural and denomination institutions  as well as granting scholarships to Romanians living abroad
• Improvement of the communication among the Romanian communities and public authorities, foundations and the business communities abroad
• Supporting the publishing and spreading out of newspapers, reviews and audio visual productions, supporting the setting up of radio and tv stations.