Romania's top foreign policy priority is to join Schengen in April 2011, Romanian President Traian Basescu declared at the annual reunion of Romanian diplomats in Bucharest on Wednesday. He underlined that he sensed there would be some problems when the Justice report on Romania was published by the EC. Basescu said that Romania would have to make a diplomatic effort for Romania to join Schengen in April 2011. And he said that the attempts of other states to link issues related to the Rroma people with Romania's intention to join Schengen are unfair.

Basescu also spoke of relations with the Republic of Moldova, a country which he said should not remain in a gray area. And on Russia he said it was a relationship with ups and downs given that "sometimes we have diverging interests". He said he would not exclude the possibility that tensions with Russia lately be the result of Romania's stand on the Republic of Moldova.

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our diplomacy did not manage to bring to Romania the energy regulation Agency ; I do not want such incidents we started to gather allies for the vote when the competitors already had their votes secured. As far as I know, a new agency will be set up next year and Romania must make a serious offer to attract it to Bucharest a powerful diplomatic action is needed for the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Justice; the mechanism needs to be ended by the end of 2011; let's impose such an objective all ambassadors to EU member states need to understand that Romania has vital interests in the future EU budget for 2013-2020; we aim to maintain the common agriculture policy at least Romania has every interest to maintain the cohesion policy at the level of the EU. So, we have two main interests: the common agriculture policy and the cohesion policy which need to be maintained in the EU bud