Hundreds of Romanian citizens from Iran and Israel are waiting to be repatriated. Hurezeanu: Azerbaijan does not receive Romanian citizens, who have Iranian citizenship

Interim Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu presented the situation of Romanian citizens on Wednesday to be evacuated or repatriated from Iran and Israel, following the war between the two countries. The minister said that there are transfer difficulties for Romanian citizens with Iranian citizenship, because of the restrictions imposed by Azera.

At the Romanian Embassy in Tehran there are currently 68 people who have expressed their desire to leave the space immediately, and the diplomatic mission maintains the dialogue with 30 other people, said the Romanian Foreign Minister.

“The difficulty of granting consular protection to Romanian citizens from mixed families is maintained due to the restrictions imposed by Azera to Iranian citizens. Azerbaijan does not receive citizens with dual citizenship, one being the Romanian one, if the second is Iranian. They cannot leave Iran to Azerbajan. Hurezeanu.

At the Romanian Embassy in Tel Aviv and the Romanian representation office at Ramallah, 119 persons requested evacuation and repatriation.

“The missions maintain the dialogue with the other Romanian citizens who notified their presence in that space, a number of 279 citizens according to the latest statistical data provided this morning,” said Hurezeanu.

At the General Consulate in Haifa 40 people were evaluated as a priority: women, children, people without financial means, medical cases for evacuation.

At the Romanian Embassy in Aman – 44 Romanian citizens affected by the cancellation of flights, they continue to receive support and orientation from the diplomatic mission in order to identify the optimal variants of leaving the kingdom.

38 Romanian pilgrims in Bethleem returned to Romania this morning

Hurezeanu also mentioned that at this moment 3 groups of pilgrims who were in the city of Bethleem left the region and entered the territory of the Arab Republic of Egypt either by their own means or by Romania's assistance to Tel Aviv. Later these people were taken over by a mobile consular team from the Romanian Embassy in Cairo.

“The last group of 40 citizens landed with a special race in Sofia during yesterday's evening, 38 of them reaching the country this morning through the care of Romania's diplomatic mission in Sofia,” Hurezeanu said.

The 38 pilgrims from Bethleem, who were evacuated through Egypt, were taken by a Bulgarian aircraft to Sofia and from there with Romanian coach they arrived this morning in the North Station.

“There are so far no material or physical damage of the Romanian citizens”

The minister also stated that “there are so far no material or physical damage of the Romanian citizens or the families of the Romanian citizens”.

The only incident so far was in the case of a building in the center of Tehran, where several diplomats lived, including the family of an Embassy employee, after the building was damaged, but not destroyed, without any other consequences.

“” Data are always gathered. Depending on the way they can be grouped from a region or another they will go to one of the safe countries-Jordan and Egypt. If there are sufficient people who get well on the destination in cities with airports or near some cities with airports are already prepared, Scheduled flights, ”explained Hurezeanu.

Emil Hurezeanu's reaction, about a possible US intervention in Iran

In the context of the war between Iran and Israel, Minister Hurezeanu was asked what a possible US military intervention would mean.

“I cannot tell you if this military intervention, which is spoken of, and even less in what situation such an intervention will change the situation in the theaters of war are not the person who can answer it. I wish, but I am not.

We are in the situation in which we request the return to negotiations, to respect the international order through negotiations, to respect the security in the region of the citizens of the states and we would like a peace process to be started as soon as possible through negotiations, meetings and what can be done to stop hostilities. This is our official opinion, ”said the minister.