Romania would be better off if people will stop at doing only what they are qualified for, and so would its top-most diplomats, foreign affairs minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu and his deputy, Teodor Baconschi, go back to their qualification as historians and leave diplomacy to the professionals.
The last case in point proving their stellar incompetence was the negotiation of the agreement Romania signed in December 2005 with the United States on the status of the American military to be stationed in Romania.
In mid February the Chamber of Deputies ratified the accord, but the subsequent debate in the specialized Senate committees brought to public attention the serious failures of this agreement.
While not losing from sight the overall positive aim of the agreement to strengthen Romaniaâs relations with the United States, the details in it show Romanian diplomats did not engage in negotiations from an equal partner stand.
The lack of both spine and professionalism of Romaniaâs diplomats made us part now to an agreement which allows the United States to attack any country using Romaniaâs territory, and the US military to commit crimes with impunity on its territory.
According to Articles 3-5, the US military have "unrestricted access" to Romaniaâs military facilities, while Romania retains for itself no right to supervise the moves the Americans decide, and is bound to give them its full support.
Another salient feature of this bilateral agreement is that it is taken out of the jurisdiction of the Law of the Treaties, regulated by the Vienna Convention, providing that eventual differences in interpreting the agreement would be solved via bilateral consultations only.
Letâs make it clear that according to international law, any attack originating on Romaniaâs territory against an independent state would be deemed an
