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Vasile Soare, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania
to the Russian Federation
Professional activity:
- 1999 - employed by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
- expert on Romania’s relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus and Central Asia in the Directorate for Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation
- August 1999 - May 2001
- Deputy Director of the Directorate for the East of MFA (Directorate for the CIS Space)
- May - December 2001 - Director of the Directorate for the East of MFA
- January 2002 - January 2008 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania in R. Kazakhstan, since 2003 accredited also to Republic of Tajikistan
- January 2008 - October 2011, 2013 - Director of the Directorate for Larger Europe and of the Directorate for
Eastern Europe and Central Asia (CIS)
- from January 16, 2014 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the Russian Federation
Honours:
- The National Order. The Faithful Service, Degree of Knight, granted by the President of Romania, December 2002
- The Diplomatic Merit Order, granted by the President of Romania, 2007
- Nominated for the award ‘Ambassadors of Year 2002’ of Romania, January 2003
- MFA Certificate for the most dynamic activity in the Romanian economic diplomacy in 2003, during the mandate as Romanian Ambassador in Kazakhstan
- Certificate and Honour granted by the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, for diplomatic work as Romanian Ambassador in Kazakhstan, January 2008
- Member of the Association of Historians of Kazakhstan,
Almat., May 2005
- Founding member, vice president of the ‘Silk Road’ Association, Bucharest, June 2012
“As far as I am concerned, I consider myself a ‘soldier’ - like my brilliant forerunner
- a ‘faithful soldier for my country’, ready to serve it with the same devotion as He did.”
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