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7 februarie 2009
Address by H.E. Mr. Cristian Diaconescu
to the Munich Security Conference
Panel Managing Instability: The Transcaucasian Region and the Western Balkans
Excellencies,
Distinguished audience,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you very much. My gratitude goes to our host for the splendid organization of this kind of seminar. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be here, and express some views and share also some concerns about the developments in the international community.
Looking to the title of this panel, it’s a little bit pessimistic, at least from our point of view. Managing instability – maybe some stability should be a goal oriented discussion at this very important gathering we have here.
Yes, in this panel, we are discussing about both Transcaucasian Region and the Western Balkans. Romania is in the middle: a direct neighbour with the Balkans and just across the Black Sea we are in the vicinity of the Caucasus.
As a representative of a country member of NATO and EU, my position will be a little bit more positive from this point of view.
Yes, frozen conflicts mean instability for all of us. The consequences of instability are probably the most important - the unstable situations tend to lead to stagnation, especially in the trans-border economic cooperation. We can say that also people living in those regions are looking for free movement of persons, services and goods, for economic development. They have more or less the same expectations as people living in other parts of the world. Mostly, we should say that those people living in the regions which you are calling (in some theoretical way) froze
