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Thousands rally in Romania against judiciary in government-backed protests

June 9, 2018 By administrator

The ruling Social Democrat party in Romania organized a large demonstration to counter anti-government protests held after Social Democrats tried to decriminalize corruption offenses. Protesters were bussed in.

The ruling Social Democrats (PSD) in Romania and thousands of their supporters rallied outside government headquarters in Bucharest on Saturday to protest alleged abuses of power by anti-corruption prosecutors.

The rally was seen as a response by the ruling coalition to a series of large anti-government street protests held against Social Democrat attempts to decriminalize several corruption offenses via emergency decree last year. After the popular outcry, the Social Democrats were forced to withdraw the decree.

The ruling Social Democratic Party believes the prosecutors have too much power and allege that they have tapped phones illegally and have unjustly targeted officials.

The party bussed in supporters from around the country for the rally, while others made it in on their own.

According to Romanian media, numerous local officials, as well as hospital managers and headteachers, had been urging their employees to join the demonstration.

Special trains were made available and the PSD also handed out instructions to make sure the demonstrations are as effective as possible.

According to a leaked party document, there would be one Romanian flag available for every 10 participants and a placard for every 40.

Justice system monitored by EU

How hard to fight corruption in Romania is an argument that has dominated politics there since it joined the EU in 2007.

Romania is one of the European Union’s most corrupt states and Brussels keeps its justice system under special monitoring.

Anti-corruption prosecutors have secured a spate of convictions against lawmakers, ministers and mayors in recent years. Among the topics are exposing conflicts of interest, abuse of power, fraud and the awarding of state contracts in exchange for bribes.

However, leading politicians, some of whom are currently under investigation or on trial, have denied wrongdoing and accused prosecutors of using their powers for political persecution.

They have also accused them of relying too much on tip-offs from third parties to build cases.

“You mustn’t be under the illusion that only high-ranking officials or public servants are targets,” said Social Democratic party leader Liviu Dragnea speaking to thousands of supporters clad in white T-shirts and waving flags.

Local television stations estimated that just under 200,000 people were at the protest, although riot police did not offer official figures.

“Nobody is safe. Absolutely everyone can be targeted by a tip-off which could lead to a conviction,” Dragnea said.

Dragnea himself was convicted in a vote-rigging case, barring him from the post of prime minister. He is now on trial in a separate case for allegedly instigating abuses of office by

other public servants. He is also under investigation on suspicion of pocketing EU funds. He denies wrongdoing in all three cases.

Social Democrat legislators are currently trying to revise the criminal code. Critics have said some of the proposed changes would damage investigations.

av/bw (AP, Reuters

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: against, judiciary, Romania

Romanian media reports: Pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait were embodiment of Azerbaijani leadership’s policy of xenophobia and ethnic cleansing

March 4, 2017 By administrator

It is endemic for the leadership of Azerbaijan to voice only their own interpretation of history in a way that easily resembles to the Goebbels-like ideology: “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” statement of the Embassy of Armenia in Romania reads.

Reportedly, since the waning years of the USSR, the people of the self-determined Nagorno-Karabakh have been fighting for the recognition of their status guaranteed by the international law. The lawful demands of the people of Artsakh to exercise their right to self-determination were met with anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait — 26 km away from Baku. Those events, carried out under the motto “Death to Armenians”, were the embodiment of Azerbaijani leadership’s policy of xenophobia, ethnic cleansing and deportation of Armenians.

Those atrocities were the very reason Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, wrote “even if some doubted it before Sumgait, no one sees a moral opportunity to insist on territorial unity of NKAO and Azerbaijan after this tragedy happened.”

“If official Baku’s response to the aspiration of people of Nagorno-Karabakh to exercise its right to self-determination were pogroms and ethnic-cleansing of the Armenian population, the reaction to the implementation of that right in 1991, based on then existing USSR legislation and norms of international law was the large-scale war against the newly-independent Artsakh, accompanied by gross violations of the international humanitarian law,” the authors emphasize.

According to the statement, exactly 25 years ago Azerbaijani Armed Forces commenced the months-long shelling of the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh — Stepanakert, which at that time had become a shelter for the refugees fleeing the pogroms in Sumgait, Baku and other cities in Azerbaijan. On February 13 of 1992, in violation of international conventions, Azerbaijan started using BM-21 “Grad” multi rocket launchers on the residential areas of Stepanakert. Khojaly was one of the seven firebases, used for the shelling of Stepanakert. Even back in Soviet time Khojaly had an important strategic importance, as it was situated on the crossroad connecting Stepanakert to other regions of Nagorno-Karabakh. Moreover, in 1970s the only airport of Nagorno-Karabakh was built next to Khojaly, which during the Artsakh’s blockade was the single gate point to the outside world. Thus, by 1992 it became evident that the neutralization of Khojaly fire point was an imperative for the physical preservation of the population of both Stepanakert and Nagorno-Karabakh as a whole. The operation to neutralize the Khojaly fire point started on February 25, 1992.
For months, the Nagorno-Karabakh self-defense forces had been informing the Azerbaijani side through all the possible means about this operation, its objectives and the humanitarian corridor left for the evacuation from Khojaly.

“Azerbaijan continues to distort the facts surrounding the bloody events near the city of Aghdam, which they call the ‘Khojaly tragedy’. The mere facts of those events raise many questions, and the Azerbaijani leaderships, even after 25 years, still prefers to keep the answers behind seven locks,” the statement reads.
Ramiz Fataliev, Chair of the Committee Investigating the Events of Khojaly: “Four days left until the events of Khojaly. On February 22, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Head of the KGB and others, a National Security Council session took place at which a decision was taken not to evacuate people from Khojaly.”

Here’s an excerpt from the words of Azeri journalist Cingiz Mustafaev, a witness to the events: “On 29th [of February], when I was heading to Aghdam from another side, from the village of Umudlu, in a military helicopter, I saw that in 10 kilometers from Khojaly and approximately in 700 meters from our military post, dead bodies of our people were scattered on the ground. What horrified me the most was when I was filming these corpses, there were around 10 people from our side, strolling around easily in military uniforms. I was told that there were no corpses, it was impossible to get there, there were Armenians and there was shooting. But when we eventually landed there on our helicopters, three helicopters unexpectedly and immediately flew to Aghdam; those 10 people left, too. I still cannot understand why in 700 meters from our posts, where there were our soldiers roaming calmly, nobody was picking up these dead bodies?”
Mustafaev also speaks of the main crime committed during the Aghdam events — the mutilation of bodies, discovered couple of days after the events. “Who has done all this? I was filming here just yesterday, there was nothing like that there.”

It comes as no surprise that there is zero tolerance in Azerbaijan towards the doubt, suspicion or investigative journalism on the official version of those events. Those who dare to speak openly about these events, were either killed like Cingiz Mustafaev, or imprisoned like journalist Eynulla Fatullayev, or exiled like the first President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutallibov.

During the interview with Czech journalist Dana Mazalova published in April 1992 Mutallibov stated that the militia of the Azerbaijani National Front actively obstructed and actually prevented the evacuation of the local civilian population from the military operation zone through the mountain passages specifically left open by Karabakh Armenians. The hope and intention of the Azerbaijani opposition was to utilize civilian losses of such a magnitude to instigate a popular uprising against the Baku regime and seize the reins of power.
Besides, more than 700 residents of Khojaly did not leave the village and were taken to Stepanakert, where they were provided with food and medical aid. Two days later, they were transferred to the Azerbaijani side, without any preconditions

“The Azerbaijani leadership has not answered yet to those questions raised by Azerbaijanis themselves. Meanwhile it has almost mastered the art of distorting the abovementioned facts in order to blame others for their crimes and escape the responsibility, while attempting to create a fictional counterbalance to the massacres that it has perpetrated against Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, Maragha,” the authors write.

The Sumgait events created a precedent of impunity and even of glorification for the killings of peaceful Armenian citizens, something we witnessed later on during Armenian massacres elsewhere in Azerbaijan. The leadership of Azerbaijan continues to inject hatred against Armenians. It encourages such crimes as the brutal murder of Gurgen Margaryan, who in 2004 was axed in his sleep by Ramil Safarov, when the two were enrolled in NATO training course in Budapest. The killer was later proclaimed a national hero of Azerbaijan.
Even recently, during the April 2016 aggression against Artsakh, the world witnessed the results of the state-run policy of Armenophobia in Azerbaijan. The ISIS-style beheading of Kyaram Sloyan and two other Nagorno-Karabakh serviceman, or the brutal murder and mutilation of elderly family in Talish village, as well as the decoration of the perpetrators of these war crimes by the President of Azerbaijan is abhorrent and should be condemned by the whole international community.

On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR, accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for violence against the Armenians.

On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses, turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive. On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.

The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown. According to official data, 27 Armenians were killed; however there is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots were coordinated by the Azerbaijani KGB. Executioners of Sumgait were subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.

On February 26, 1992, during the Karabakh war, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Rights Watch, and 600 according to the version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances near the city of Aghdam. They were deliberately withheld by the Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions. The authorities of Azerbaijan intentionally kept the population in the village for months by force and did not evacuate them in order to use them as human shields later as the village was one of the firing points for shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others).

The residents of Khojaly, coming out through the humanitarian corridor the self-defense forces of the NKR had left open, freely passed more than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani troops. Later, dead bodies of the villagers were foundnot far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops. The exact death toll remains unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other. Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev, the investigative materials are kept secret.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, Azerbaijan, Romania, Sumgait

Romanian to the Street, Socialists Gov’t repeal corruption decree

February 5, 2017 By administrator

In an emergency meeting, Romania has repealed a controversial corruption decree. The law set off nationwide protests and would have watered down anti-corruption authorities’ power.

Romania has formally repealed a controversial corruption decree on Sunday. A day earlier, Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu said the government planned to withdraw the corruption decree,  which sparked the country’s biggest protests since the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.

The decree decriminalized abuse-of-power offenses involving sums below 200,000 lei (44,000 euros/$48,000), potentially benefiting dozens of political figures from all parties – not least the head of the ruling Social Democrats (PSD). Liviu Dragnea, viewed as the real power behind Grindeanu’s month-old government, stands accused of using his political influence to secure state salaries for two people working at his party headquarters between 2006 and 2013. His conviction on electoral fraud charges barred him from seeking office himself.

On Friday, up to 250,000 people demonstrated across Romania against the law. More than 300,000 people took to the streets of Romania on Saturday – the fifth straight day of protest against the decree. Demonstrators marched through the streets of the capital, Bucharest, to the parliament building, where they formed a human chain.

‘Can’t be divided’

At a news conference Saturday, Grindeanu said he would seek “a legal way to make sure it does not take effect.” He added: “I do not want to divide Romania. It can’t be divided in two.”

Romania joined the European Union in 2007 but remains subject to a monitoring mechanism for cooperation to determine whether it meets the bloc’s standards. The country still has not reached the benchmark in judiciary reforms and in the fight against corruption. However, anti-corruption efforts in the past years have led to more than 1,000 convictions for graft – including that of a former prime minister.

Grindeanu’s government took over in early January, following the triumph of the PSD and its liberal junior partner, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats.

mkg/sms (Reuters, AFP, dpa, AP)

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: corruption, decree, repeal, Romania

Romanian president rejects Muslim Turk candidate for prime minister

December 27, 2016 By administrator

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has rejected the leftist Social Democrat Party’s (PSD) proposal to name Sevil Shhaideh as prime minister-designate. She would have been the country’s first female and Muslim premier.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis told reporters on Tuesday that having “carefully weighed up the pro and cons,” he had decided to not appoint Sevil Shhaideh (pictured above) as prime minister.

“As a result, I am asking the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and [its coalition partner] ALDE to make a new proposal,” Iohannis said. The president did not disclose any more details regarding his decision.

Were Shhaideh to have been appointed prime minister, she would have been Romania’s first Muslim and female premier. Her nomination last week came as a shock to the nation, however, as she is still relatively unknown.

Having only briefly served as regional development minister in 2015, Shhaideh has been criticized for a lack of political experience.

Insufficient experience

PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea is barred from becoming prime minister, however, due to a conviction of election fraud. He is currently serving a two-year suspended prison sentence.

Dragnea’s personal closeness to Shhaideh has also been scrutinized by opponents. They claim that proposing Shhaideh for the premiership was simply Dragnea’s way for her to become his puppet. In 2011, he was a witness at Shhaideh’s wedding.

Having won 45 percent of the vote in Romania’s parliamentary election earlier this month, the Social Democrats now share a majority coalition its long-time ally, the ALDE. With 250 members in the 465-seat two-house assembly, the PSD can easily give their government a vote of confidence and pass legislation.

ksb/sms (AFP, AP, Reuters)

Filed Under: News Tagged With: muslim turk, PM, reject, Romania

Romanian’s thought they liberated themselves from the Turks, not realizing electing Turkish Prime minister

December 21, 2016 By administrator

Muslim, Turkish Sevil Shhaideh set to be Romania’s first female prime minister.

Romania could be headed for its first female prime minister, an economist who is a member of Romania’s small Muslim and Turkish community.

Liviu Dragnea, chairman of Romania’s Social Democratic party, which won the parliamentary election, proposed Wednesday that Sevil Shhaideh take the post of prime minister. The announcement was a surprise because her name is not widely known in Romania.

Shhaideh, 52, is a member of the Social Democratic Party but did not run in the Dec. 1 elections. She was minister for regional development for six months in 2015, and is currently a senior official in the regional development ministry.

President Klaus Iohannis is consulting with political leaders before nominating a prime minister, who Parliament needs to approve. If approved by lawmakers, she would also become the country’s first Muslim prime minister.

Dragnea is banned from being premier because he has a conviction for election fraud.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: muslim, PM, Romania, Turks

Romanian fans on FAF and banner dedicated to Armenian Genocide

October 11, 2016 By administrator

faf-fanBy Vera Martorosyan

Romanian ultras from Uniti Sub Tricolor (United under tricolor) fan movement were present at the 2018 World Cup qualifier Armenia vs. Romania. They arrived in Yerevan from Romania, bringing with them a banner dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, but the law enforcement authorities didn’t allow them to take the banner to the stadium.

The banner

We have come here on our cars. We are heading for Kazakhstan today, but already by plane, since the road from Armenia to Kazakhstan is not that convenient. We had brought with us a banner dedicated to the Armenian Genocide; it read “1.5 million crosses are shining in the sky. At least say “Say forgive us” someone should try .” The word ‘someone’ was written in the form of the Turkish crescent. This banner is made by our friends from Camarazii – group of christian-ortodox ultras fans, from several teams in Romania, and we united to support Romania together. They always have this kind of banners, because after our country, we fight for orthodoxy and christianity. We cannot forget the ottoman genocid against christians from the ottoman empire.

But we weren’t allowed to bring it to the stadium as if it were a political banner. We tried to hide it in our clothes but we didn’t manage to. During the match we also sang songs about the Genocide, thinking that the people would sing along, but then we realized that not everyone knew English. The idea of the banner belongs to the members of our fan movement. We opened the banner but already in the city center.

Protests during the match

We lit up flares and this os not a protest, this is how we show our passion. We don’t want our federation to be fined, but we are against many things happening in our football now. For instance, the quality of international football players. We want the child and youth football to develop. We often stage different protests.

Support to FAF

During the match we noticed the police try to take away a flag from the fans. We began to whistle and expressed our support to First Armenian Front (FAF). We have ourselves not once appeared in such problematic situations and support the FAF guys. We will wait for them in Bucharest. We are leaving Armenia with great impressions.

Filed Under: Events, Genocide, News Tagged With: Armenia, faf, Romania

Romania arrests Israeli firm workers for spying on top prosecutor

April 6, 2016 By administrator

Laura Codruta Kovesi, Romania's chief anti-corruption prosecutor ©AP

Laura Codruta Kovesi, Romania’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor ©AP

Romania has arrested two employees of an Israeli intelligence company on charges of spying on and trying to intimidate the country’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, officials say.

“An investigation has been launched and two people have been arrested,” Mihaela Porime, a spokeswoman for the anti-crime and terrorist prosecutors’ office, said on Wednesday, adding that the suspects work for the Israeli private intelligence agency, Black Cube.

The firm reportedly has several former operatives of Israel’s Mossad spy agency on its payroll.

The pair were identified as Belgian David Geclowitz and Israeli-born Ron Weiner, who holds a French passport.

They are suspected of hacking the emails of people close to Laura Codruta Kovesi, the chief prosecutor of Romania’s National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), and of threatening and harassing her family members.

The arrest warrant said the two had in March set up a “criminal group … aimed at sullying Kovesi’s image.”

According to Romanian judicial sources, the two are believed to have been employed by a client being investigated by the DNA.

Meanwhile, Kovesi confirmed that the detentions were “linked to a failed intimidation bid.”

Kovesi, who was appointed last month for a second term as Romania’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, is known for her tough approach to high-level graft.

Her agency prosecuted some 1,250 cases only in 2015, with targets including a former premier and five ex-ministers.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arrest, Israel, Romania, Spying

ROMANIA Azeri caviar diplomacy sends a former MEP in prison

March 8, 2016 By administrator

g-480x321Caught by a corruption scandal that had splashed the European Parliament five years, former MEP Adrian Severin, a Romanian who openly defended the interests of Azerbaijan in the Strasbourg Assembly, was sentenced to a term of 3 years and 3 months in prison in Romania for trying to make changes to the legislation of the European Union in exchange for the sum of 100 000 euros, the Sunday Times reported.

The case, known as the “scandal of laws against cash” was stale in 2011 at the initiative of a team of journalists from the Sunday Times who had been posing as lobbyists and had proposed the money under this coverage to some 60 European parliamentarians who had to accept in part against adopting amendments carving in breach laws protecting bank customers in Europe. A. Severin, a former foreign minister of Romania, Zoran Thaler, former Foreign Minister of Slovenia and Ernst Strasser, former Foreign Minister of Austria had accepted the agreement and had fallen into the trap set by journalists , according to EurActiv group. As a result, the European Parliament, in a press release issued on 21 March 2011, had stated that “the national Department anti-corruption Romania was initiating proceedings against Severin on the basis of charges that between December 2010 and March 2011, he would have accepted to receive the sum of 100 000 euros proposed by representatives of a fictitious lobbying group ‘Taylor Jones Public Affairs’ (created from scratch for the occasion by the Sunday Times) “in exchange he would have committed to vote for amendments that would be favorable to them and reject those that are contrary to the interests of the group claimed they were supposed to represent.

The FOCUS News Agency reported that a video filmed by hidden camera by journalists shows the member agreeing to receive 4,000 euros per day for the mission entrusted to him. These overwhelming evidence encourage the European Parliament to lift the parliamentary immunity of A.Severin. After spending the agreement, A. Severin would have asked one of his colleagues who were not in the proposed amendment combines the false lobbyists had asked him to endorse. EurActiv reported an email sent by A. Severin reporters “just to let you know that you want the amendment was submitted on time”, followed by a mark of 12 000 euros charge for expected benefits ” services requested. “ A. Severin will defend later by saying he had done nothing illegal. But the political scandal could not be avoided.

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the European Parliament launched an investigation into the corruption to punish parliamentarians involved. But as OLAF that ethical codes and conducts of the European Parliament highlighted the misuse of public funds rather than lobbying practices of a private group, it was also false. Also, the issue should be settled within the framework of the legislation of the countries of the parliamentarians concerned. Moreover, the press has reported excluding Severin of the Socialist Group in 2011, which did not prevent him to retain his seat in the European Parliament and to the normal end of his term in 2014. According to the Lawyer Herald, a site of legal, a conviction of Adrian Severin for bribes was possible under the Romanian Penal Code. Various media were quick to point out that MEPs involved were lobbying at the service of different powers.

Thus, the Russian Service of Radio France Internationale A.Severin had designated as a “stated lawyer of Azerbaijan”. The positions of A.Severin for Azerbaijan appeared with evidence when voting or written questions concerning this country, and the member makes no secret of his website. Already in 2008, in response to a speech by Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for Trade and European Neighbourhood Policy, in which she spoke about the Georgian crisis, and was part of the EU’s commitment to support Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova and integrity and territorial sovereignty, A.Severin issued a protest deploring “the omission of Azerbaijan in the speech of Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner.” In the process, he had asked the Commission to say whether it was “willing to prepare a plan to advance its relations and cooperation with Azerbaijan”.

In 2013, the Romanian MEP had sent another written question to the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy. In this issue, he stressed that “Azerbaijan has an important regional role in the areas of energy security, the economy, geostrategy and culture.” He also made an inquiry about the “alternative” to the EU to set “the basis of a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan, including a statement of a clear and unanimous support of the EU’s territorial integrity Azerbaijan, at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius “. He asked the Commission whether the EU was willing to sign an agreement on easing the visa regime with Azerbaijan. A.Severin is e last protagonists of the scandal to be sent to prison.

Ernst Strasser was sentenced to four years in 2013, Thaler and two and a half years in 2014. But for their part, unlike the Romanian politician, they had given up their seat when the scandal broke. But many other political leaders of different countries, the European Parliament and even the Council of Europe, continue with impunity to serve the interests of Azerbaijan, succumbing to his “caviar diplomacy” and oil, two commodities hit by the crisis yet today, caviar because of restrictions on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian and oil due to the sudden drop in its international prices, which hit hard the Azerbaijani economy which is heavily dependent.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016,
Gari © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Azerbaijan, jail, MEP, Romania

Varujan Vosganian appointed Romania’s Minister of Economy

December 22, 2012 By administrator

20:37, 21 December, 2012

YEREVAN, DECEMBR 21, ARMENPRESS: Romanian Parliament has endorsed new Cabinet of Victor Ponta on December 21, due to which Armenian Varujan Vosganian was appointed as the Minister of Economy of Romania. As reports Armenpress, minister-delegates of Energy and Small and Medium Enterprises, the business environment and tourism are going to be subordinated to Varujan Vosganian. Newly appointed Ministers will swear in in Presidential Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest.

Armenian community in Romania is glad with the appointment of Varujan Vosganian.

“We think that he is one of the great individuals of Diaspora who has a lot of achievements and represents as real Armenian,” said the leader of one of communities. According to him Varujan continues the tradition as Armenians used to have ministers, parliamentarians and politicians in Romania.

Being devoted to Armenian origin, language and culture Varujan Vosganian is accepted as a Romanian politician, defender of Romanian values and interests. “I am a 100 % Armenian and 1000% Romanian,” he has once jokingly noted.

Born in Craiova to a family of Armenian ethnicity, Vosganian studied at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza High School in Focşani. He then studied Commerce at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (graduated 1982) and Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (graduated 1991), gaining a Ph.D. in economics in 1998. In 1990, he became president of the Armenians’ Union of Romania and he was twice (1990-1992 and 1992-1996) elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and twice a Senator (1996-2000 and 2004-2008), on the lists of the National Liberal Party.

Between 1996 and 2003, he was the leader of Uniunea Forţelor de Dreapta, a small right wing liberal party, which was eventually merged into the National Liberal Party.

Vosganian has written several books, especially on economics and politics, but also fiction and poetry. He is a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union, and since 2005, he has served as its vice president. Vosganian is also a leading member of the Romanian Humorists’ Association.

One of his achievements is his book titled “The book of whispers” about Armenian Genocide. Varujan Vosganian noted that it was a victory for him to speak Armenia. According to him culture is the most important tool of fight because the book is more powerful than thousands of political speeches, talks and diplomatic efforts. On the author’s words his book is about the Armenian identity. It is concluding the destiny of Armenian nation. Vosganian believes that for forgiving there must be a dialogue. We cannot forgive yet because the one in front of us is blind and deaf.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian news, Romania

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