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26

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomat selection process

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I think that if you look over the test results on this page, you’ll be convinced of one of the following two things:

1. Nearly every person that takes written employment exams for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is truly stupid, and the intellectual differences between stupid candidates (those with grades of 2 something [that's 20%, for you Americans reading this], etc.) and average candidates (with grades higher than 7 [70%]) are extraordinary.

2. But certain people do manage to get a passing grade, which gets them a face-to-face interview (for reasons that have to do with… the ethereal, of course).

Anyway, let us be proud of and give a round of applause for MFA Spokesperson Corina Vinţan, who has passed the written exam and whose incapacity was proven live this evening on the Ştirea Zilei [News of the Day] show, with the help of Minister Adrian Cioroianu (who was trying to explain to everybody that there was no attempt to plan a meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice) and a quote from the press-release Corina gave, which was provided live by Cristian Tudor Popescu.

I’m quoting the original text of the press release here:

“MFA Position

Meeting with the US Secretary of State

The agenda of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not allow for a meeting with minister Cioroianu.
Such a meeting with Secretary Rice would have been desired, either on this occasion or on another. Unfortunately, due to objective reasons, such a meeting could not bet set up.
It is a normal issue at such events to attempt to secure as many bilateral meetings as possible.
However, we have every reason to believe that the Romanian-American strategic partnership is as strong as ever and that our mutual commitments for our joint projects remain as firm as before.
All this weird news flow on this subject is has no scope or usefulness.
We would like to bring to your attention the fact that such biased use of foreign policy information can act in a damaging manner for Romania.”

Update (26 APR 2007): Corroborating with this article [which reinforces the original press release text], I realize Minister Adrian Cioroianu has no clue what is going on in the Ministry he’s running. I cannot offer my apologies to Corina Vinţan because she, with the help of her colleagues, should have properly informed Mr. Adrian Cioroianu, who was only recently appointed to his position. Making the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania look like a fool denotes lack of professionalism on behalf of his staff.

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