Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on UK-Romanian Relations - June 19
Wednesday, 20 June 2018 09:26
Bob Blackman (Harrow East) (Con):...One or two aspects of modern
Romania and what is happening there are probably not widely known.
We visited a number of Jewish sites in Bucharest. One
synagogue is being turned into a holocaust museum, to commemorate
and recall the tragic events in Romania during the Nazi era. In
Bucharest and Romania, people are facing up to the damage done
during the Nazi era and in the holocaust and to the terrible number
of people murdered by the Nazis and...Request free trial
(Harrow East)
(Con):...One or two aspects of modern Romania and what is
happening there are probably not widely known. We visited a number
of Jewish sites in
Bucharest. One synagogue is being turned into a holocaust museum,
to commemorate and recall the tragic events in Romania during the
Nazi era. In Bucharest and Romania, people are facing up to the
damage done during the Nazi era and in the holocaust and to the
terrible number of people murdered by the Nazis and their
collaborators.
(Keighley)
(Lab):...Romania has a long tradition of having an
independent foreign policy—that was the case even under the Soviet
Union. Reference was made to our memorable dinner at a restored
synagogue. Romania has a role to play in the middle east. I learned
that not only is there a Palestinian population in Bucharest, but
there are long-standing links with the state of Israel. Many Jewish citizens of Romania went
to Israel—in fact, Ceaucescu even demanded payments
from Israel—in the period of communism. There is
still a strong, small Jewish community there, and that certainly
brought home to me the need continually to fight anti-Semitism
wherever we are...
The Minister for Europe and the Americas (Sir Alan
Duncan):...As an outward-looking nation, we also remain
committed to supporting peace and security in the rest of the
world. I take this opportunity to put on record my concern at
recent suggestions by some Romanian politicians that their embassy
in Israel might move from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. We very much hope that Romania remains with the rest of
the EU in believing that this would be unhelpful to the prospects
for peace in the region; in any event, it is against the terms of
United Nations Security Council resolution 478 of 1980 and
others...
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