The President of the Korean Republic, Roh Moo-Hyun, will start his three-day-long official visit in Romania today. This is the first visit of a South-Korean leader in Romania after the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the two countries in March 1990.
The visit of the leader in Seoul to Bucharest takes place at less than one year after the state visit of President Traian Basescu to the Korean Republic. The South-Korean President will have meetings with President Traian Basescu, with PM Tariceanu as well as with the Presidents of the two Parliament Chambers. "The high-level talks will target issues regarding the agenda of the bilateral relations, especially regarding the economical cooperation, as well as issues on the international agenda. The Korean President will be accompanied by an important delegation of businessmen, representing several important South-Korean companies", the Presidential Administration states.
REQUEST TO NORTH KOREA
Yesterday, a day before the official visit to Bucharest of the leader in Seoul, President Traian Basescu took part in an e-mail interview for the Yonhap news agency. He used this opportunity to ask North Korea to get back to the multilateral negotiations regarding the nuclear disarmament. He also emphasized the need to impose the moratorium regarding the long-range missiles again, says the Yonhap agency webpage. "We think that the only viable format for the solving of the of the security problems in the Korea Peninsula is the one of the negotiations in six", Traian Basescu stated. The negotiations in six, with the participation of the two Koreas, of China, the United States, Japan and Russia, have been blocked since November last year. At the beginning of July, North Korea tested seven missiles, including a Taepodong-2, a long-range missile.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Romania and the Korean Re
