Romania to organize an International summit in 2017 against anti-Semitism

Romania will organize at the beginning of 2017 an international summit dedicated to the joint action against the anti-Semitic and extremist manifestations, President Klaus Iohannis announced on Wednesday. 

"We shall launch soon the initiative of organizing in Bucharest, at the beginning of 2017, an international summit dedicated to the joint action against the anti-Semitic manifestations, as well as against any form of extremist manifestations," said Iohannis at the ceremony of decoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Honorary Chairman Yehuda Bauer. 

The head of state congratulated Bauer, who throughout his career proved to be an unmistakable landmark in the research of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the movement of the Jewish resistance during the persecution. 

The decoration ceremony was attended by Justice Minister Raluca Pruna, alongside several ambassadors, presidential advisors and representatives of the IHRA and of the associations for the Holocaust victims. 

The president signed in February the decoration decree of professor Yehuda Bauer with the National Order for Merit in rank of Grand Officer, "in sign of high appreciation and gratitude for the personal significant contribution to the research of the Holocaust phenomenon, whose goal is to keep alive this tragedy the humankind should not know anymore, as well as for the fruitful, prodigious collaboration he has with our country." 

The decoration was proposed by Foreign Affairs Minister Lazar Comanescu.

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