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About one week after the press in Poland published thorough reports on the dramatic situation the young Romanian Claudiu Crulic had been in after 3 months of starving himself to death, the Romanian foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu gave a first report on it yesterday. But he couldn't make up his mind on whether to excuse or accuse his ministry staff. As for the Romanian PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu, he took the foreign minister's report for "insufficient", asking that the consular staff accredited abroad should be evaluated at once.

The Romanian government sent a press release yesterday to make the following announcement: "The PM thinks the report provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is insufficient, especially that part of it that mentions the institutional measures that should be taken and the responsibility of the staff aware of the situation that Romanian citizen Dan Claudiu Crulic was in." This was announced yesterday, after the presentation of the preliminary report on the case, authored by the committee who went to Poland to look into the circumstances of the Romanian's death.

As he was dissatisfied with the minister Cioroianu's evaluation, the Romanian PM pleaded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should continue investigations, claiming that the Romanian consul in Poland should be sanctioned.

In the same press release there was also mentioned the PM's wish that institutional measures to be taken in the ministry at stake should be reinforced so that no similar cases would emerge in the future. Therefore PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu decided to order a professional evaluation of the entire staff employed in Romania's consular offices abroad. There is mentioned that such evaluation is aimed at deciding the way each Foreign Ministry employee in consular offices meets professional standards.

Between excuses and accusations

The foreign minister argued yesterday that the Romanian consul in Warsaw had provided flawed information and he had had an inappropriate approach to the case. According to RADOR, he mentioned the official wasn't summoned to Bucharest just for inquiry, "but for good, most likely." (...)

On the other hand, minister Cioroianu pleaded as follows: "I don't mean that this is only Romanian authorities' fault. (...) What I am now interested in is the way the ministry's employees obeyed the norms they were supposed to carry out."

It is to be noticed that the situation of the Romanian who weighed only 26 kilos in the last days of his life touched the press in Poland first, then the Romanian press and only afterwards did Romania's diplomats call consul Ioan Preda to come to Bucharest, upon the PM's request. (A.M.L.)