It is my honour to address the Assembly on agenda item 25, “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System”. It may seem surprising that a country so distant from Latin America should be speaking on such a specific item, but there are rational reasons for this.
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It is my honour today to speak on behalf of a country whose francophone tradition goes back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. When it became a full member of the movement of countries that use French as a common language in 1991, Romania sought to ensure the continuity of its modern cultur…