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H.E. Ion JINGA, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative Council of Europe.
Motto: „My life has been a continuous struggle to carve out a place
for Romania in the life of the world, while also defending its national
interests.” – Nicolae Titulescu (Romanian diplomat, Foreign Minister, President
of the League of Nations 1930-1932)
One
of the most known descriptions of the role of diplomacy in international
relations belongs to Lord Henry Palmerston, British Prime Minister, in a speech to House of Commons, on 1
March 1848: „We have no eternal allies,
and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and
those interests it is our duty to follow.” One may be tempted to consider
such a cynical definition outdated; however, as French chemist Antoine
Lavoisier noted: „In nature nothing is
lost, nothing is created, and everything is transformed”.
Today,
diplomacy is generally considered as the practices and strategies…
