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Romania's tourist brand launched at Expo 2010 in Shanghai

Bucharest, July 29 / Agerpres / - 'Romania's tourist brand, under the slogan 'Explore the Carpathian Garden', was launched Thursday at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. The new logo and slogan under which Romania will be promoted as a tourist destination in the coming years have also been presented at the event. The leaf - a graphic element powerfully anchored in Romania's nature and tradition, brings the brand's visual identity into relief. The entire graphical symbol is intended to suggest the Variety of Romania's specific geographical features and the primary elements: earth, water, the wild, adventure, dynamism.

ForMin Baconschi and Minister Udrea, along with Nadia Comaneci, Gheorghe Hagi and Ilie Nastase at EXPO Shanghai 2010

Bucharest, July 28 /Agerpres/ - Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi is in Shanghai over July 28-30, to attend the events of Romania's National Day at EXPO 2010, due to be celebrated on Thursday July 29.

Romania campaigns in Brussels for European approach of Roma issues

Brussels, July 26 /Agerpres/ - At a meeting of the European Union's General Affairs Council on Monday in Brussels, Romania campaigned for the need for a European approach of the Roma integration issue, Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi told a news conference at the end of the meeting.

Equal autonomy for all Romanian citizens, regardless of ethnicity

Bucharest, July 25 /Agerpres/ - President Traian Basescu, attending on Saturday, July 24, the debates at the Tusvanyos Summer University in Tusnad (Harghita County, center Romania), said that he supports the process of decentralization and sticks to his conviction that all Romanian citizens must enjoy equal autonomy, regardless of ethnicity.

Romania's Pavilion at EXPO 2010, visited by two million people

Bucharest, July 24 /Agerpres/ - Romania's Commissioner General at EXPO 2010, Ferdinand Nagy, on Saturday awarded the visitor number 2,000,000 at the Romanian Pavilion - Greenopolis. According to a press release of the Foreign Ministry, Han Liang, who lives near Shanghai, won, on this occasion, a holiday for two people in Romania.

ForMin Baconschi: out of the 192 UN member states only 69 have stated themselves in favour of recognising Kosovo

Bucharest, July 23 /Agerpres/ - Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on Friday said that two thirds of the international community has not recognised Kosovo, a stance that Romania has steadily taken. "Currently, a majority of the EU member states recognise Kosovo. At the same time, in the international community, out of the 192 UN member states only 69 have stated themselves in favour of recognising this entity," Baconschi said in a statement at the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) on Friday evening.

ForMin Baconschi reiterates in Kabul Romania's commitment to Afghanistan reconstruction and stabilization

Bucharest, July 21 /Agerpres/ - Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi participated on Tuesday, July 20, in Kabul, in the International Conference on Afghanistan, occasion to reaffirm Romania's firm commitment to Afghanistan reconstruction and consolidation.

State Secretary Bogdan Aurescu participates in informal meeting of OSCE

Bucharest, July 17 /Agerpres/ - State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu, on July 16-17, headed Romania's delegation attending the informal foreign ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, which is currently holding the rotating presidency of the organization.

MAE: Romania's wish to encourage Republic of Moldova's European development is quite natural

Bucharest, July 16 /Agerpres/ - Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Romania's wish to encourage the Republic of Moldova's European development is quite natural, with the response coming after an item carried by German Der Spiegel publication said Romania "generously" offers Romanian passports to its eastern neighbours.

Basescu, Grybauskaite discuss energy cooperation in Baltic Sea, Black Sea

Bucharest, July 14 /Agerpres/ - The cooperation on energy in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea area was one of the topics approached during the talks held by Romanian President Traian Basescu and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on the occasion of a one-day official visit paid by the Romanian leader to Vilnius on Wednesday.

Bogdan Aurescu: Romania is involved in struggle against information criminality

Bucharest, July 13 /Agerpres/ - State Secretary for Strategic Affairs with the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu said on Tuesday, in the opening of the conference on "Models and approaches in combating information criminality and in digital investigations", that the Romanian State was involved in combating information criminality by giving extensive institutional support to a Romanian-Swiss cooperation project being put into practice.

Annual meeting of Slovenian-Romanian Cooperation Association

Ljubljana, 2nd of July / Embassy / On July 1st took place, in Ljubljana, the annual meeting of Slovenian-Romanian Cooperation Association.

International Summer School “Climate change - from Japan to Canada”.

Ljubljana, 1st of July / Embassy / On June 28 took place, in Maribor, the official opening of the International Summer School “Climate change - from Japan to Canada”.

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