A delegation of the US Congress comes to Romania. The head of the Presidential Chancellery: “There is availability of clarification from our point of view in relation to the elections”

The head of the Presidential Chancellery, Cristian Diaconescu, told Antena 3 CNN on Friday that “at the beginning of next week a significant delegation of the American Congress would come” in our country and that there will be “contacts at all significant decision -making levels in Romania”. According to the official, the delegation would be made up of both Republicans and Democrats.

“I will confirm that at the beginning of next week a significant delegation of the American Congress would come to Romania, with contacts at all the significant decision -making levels in Romania. I can not give you details, obviously when they will make a certain discussion. It is very good. Another development will follow from this point of view.”

Former head of Romanian diplomacy and current presidential counselor, Diaconescu described the moment as a “very important” one.

“On the one hand, the strategic elements that interest us, but which interest, attention, and Americans, that is, here are common interests, will be discussed, debated. Two, it is the Black Sea strategy that the American Congress adopted last year with a Bipartisan support-and this presence in Bucharest, and will be, as much as they will be. With us, please, so from this perspective we managed to overcome the absence of these contacts ”, continued Dianconescu.

He claims that “there were” contacts, but they were missing “those with signal value”.

“Yes, I know, they are important, even if the discussions can, please, in a slightly elaborate framework they do not go to all sensitive details, but it is important to show the public opinion that there is interest and there is also availability of clarification from our point of view in relation to the elections (…). We are available,” added the presidential counselor.

Asked if there are Romanian officials “prepared with answers for Congressmen”, Cristian Diaconescu replied: “We are prepared”.

“Moreover, we, of course, will give, if there will be such requests, answers to what happened, but especially to the guarantees about what will happen (…). From our point of view, the fact that we will have in the next period, on several levels, a direct, public dialogue, represents a step forward,” said Cristian Diaconescu.

After Donald Trump's return to the White House, JD Vice President Vance and other American officials criticized the decision taken by the Constitutional Court of Romania on December 6, when the institution annulled the presidential elections based on the reports presented by the information services in the Supreme Council of the Country.

In motivating the decision made by unanimously by votes, the CCR claimed that “the electoral process was vitiated throughout its course” and invoked the need to exclude the interference of state or non-state entities. In a press conference on December 18, former President Klaus Iohannis said that Russia was the state actor involved in the Romanian presidential.