T R E A T Y
Regarding Friendship and Cooperation Relationship Between
Romania and the Russian Federation, herein called Contracting Parties,
Holding
the deep belief in the need to promote an active future-oriented
politics, to yield fruitful friendship and cooperation between Romania and the
Russian Federation, founded on equality, partnership and mutual advantage in
all fields of activity,
Having
confirmed adhesion to the goals and principles in the Charter
of the United Nations Organisation, the Helsinki
Final Act, the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and also to all other
documents of both the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in
Laying
great stress on the deep historical changes
Wishing
to contribute in all possible ways to building a new Europe that would stay as
one on the foundation of the common values of democracy, freedom and the lawful
state and also to help strengthening security and cooperation structures on the
continent,
Steadfast
in their conviction that the pre-eminence of the international law in the
relationships between states and the observance fundamental human rights and
freedom stand for an unquestionable condition in the new European edifice,
Paying
heed to the radical change in the political and economical
systems in Romanian and the
Taking
into account the potential with which the two states count and
their means of mutually fruitful bilateral cooperation,,
Have
agreed on the following:
Article
1
The
Contacting Parties will develop friendship cooperation understanding and mutual
respect, taking as guidelines in their contacts the principles of the Charter
of the United Nations Organisation, the Helsinki
Final Act and other documents of both the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in
The Contracting Parties will solve all the problems in their relationship by
means of negotiations and in accordance with the international law principles
and regulations
They reinforce the indefeasible right of nations to
freely and without any foreign intrusion decide upon their political status,
chose the means to provide security economic social and cultural development.
Article
2
The
Contracting Parties reinforce the conviction that using force or menace against
territorial integrity or political independence of any state or in any other
way that comes in contradiction with the goals and principles of the United
Nations Organisation is unconceivable and they also
stress upon the need to solve all international problems by peaceful means.
Should any disagreements, peace or international security either effective or
potential threats occur or should the circumstances be so that the security of
either of the Contracting Parties may be endangered, each of them is to proceed
to readjust the attitude in order to find appropriate solutions to peacefully
solve conflicts or any other circumstances, in accordance with the Charter of
the United Nations Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe.
Should any of the Contracting Parties be the object of an act of armed
aggression or find itself under the imminent threat of armed aggression from a
third state or states it may demand the other Contacting Party to participate
in consultations on the matter in order to favour the
agreement on a solution according to the stipulations in the Charter of the
United Nations Organisation or in the documents of
the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe.
Article
3
The
Contracting Parties acknowledge the all-encompassing and indivisible character
of security and the unbreakable bond between the security of each state
individually and the global security of all the states participating in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and
restate the inherent right that each of them has to freely opt for or change
security engagements, agreement treaties included, according to their
development. They shall not strengthen their security at the expense of the
security of other states.
They actively support the process of security and cooperation strengthening in
The Contracting Parties favour the European
integration process and they offer their cooperation particularly in the
creation of a unique lawful, economic and cultural space on the European
continent. The Contracting Parties support the creation development and
effectiveness of the widely European structures and measures meant to
strengthen trust and security, for the purpose of preventing and solving
conflicts amiably.
The Contacting Parties pay special heed to the regional and sub-regional
multilateral cooperation, as an integrant part of the wide European process.
The Contracting Parties give their full support to strengthen the efficiency of
the security and cooperation mechanisms in the United Nations Organisation.
The Contracting Parties undertake all efforts regarding self-security insurance
according to both bilateral and multilateral commitments and also to those
referring to arms and armed forces.
Military and military technology cooperation between the Contracting Parties
shall develop in accordance with the obligations that have been assumed at the
international level, on the basis of the principle that makes it clear that the
use of force or force menace against the territorial integrity or political
independence of any state is unconceivable.
Article
4
The
Contracting Parties actively contribute to nuclear chemical and biologic
disarmament.
They took actions meant to extend participation to the treaty of nuclear weapon
non-proliferation on
The Contracting Parties actively cooperate in order to agree upon steps to be
taken in consolidating trust measures in
Article
5
The
Contracting Parties organise consultations on a
regular basis, on issues regarding bilateral relationship development and other
aspects of the international life, especially those concerning security and
cooperation in
The Contacting Parties support the contacts between interested public
authorities and favour contacts between the Romanian
administrative-territorial units and their counterparts in the
Article
6
The
Contracting Parts extend their economic relationship on a basis of equality
partnership and mutual advantage, laying the premises for further promotion of
up-to-date trade economic and techno-scientific cooperation and intend to take
measures to consolidate the juridical background required.
The Contracting Parties stimulate direct contacts and cooperation between
economic agents in
They encourage the development of cooperation in capital investments.
The Contracting Parties support cooperation in the field of fundamental and
applied sciences by means of joint programmes and
projects, research exchange and other patterns of cooperation.
Article
7
With
the view to satisfying the economical necessities of the two states, the
Contracting Parties pay special heed to the cooperation in the field of energy,
fuel, raw material, transportation, mechanical engineering, building, agriculture
and food industry, consumer goods and in other fields, including the prospect
of joint ventures and companies, joint capital banks.
The Contracting Parties support cooperation in the free economic areas in their
territory.
They have taken actions in order to create bilateral cooperation mechanisms in
economy, commerce, science and technology as well as in other fields and also
to increase efficiency of the already existing ones.
Article
8
The
Contracting Parties enjoy a tight cooperation in the fields of environment
protection and of moderate use of natural resource and also in preventing and
completely avoiding natural or technological exceptional situations.
They contribute to extending bilateral regional and sub-regional cooperation in
the field of environment protection and of moderate use of natural resources
and they work together in order to draw up special programs and projects on
better nature protection measures, where the Black Sea area holds a special
position.
The Contracting Parties assist each other in preventing and avoiding natural or
technological exceptional situations, they permanently keep each other updated
on natural and technological catastrophes with consequences that pass beyond
the border and on the measures taken to diminish them, according to the
provisions in the international conventions to which
The Contracting Parties proceed to activities mutually in joint bilateral and
international actions connected to humanitarian objectives.
Article
9
The
Contracting Parties actively cooperate both between each other and with other
sates interested in the matter, for a moderate use of the
Article
10
The
Contracting Parties develop a wide cooperation in the fields of science,
culture and information.
The Contracting Parties contribute to direct relationship between academic
institutions, scientific research centres, cultural
and artistic institutions, artists and scholars and also between mass-media
institutions.
Each Contracting Party state their availability of providing interested
citizens wide access to the language and culture of the other Contracting Party
and of supporting any initiatives of the state and non-governmental
institutions in the field.
The Contracting Parties favour mutual access to
archive material, libraries and other such institutions, in accordance to the
legislation of each state.
Article
11
The
Contracting Parties observe, ensure and protect, under circumstances of perfect
equality before the law, without discrimination, the ethnical, cultural,
linguistic and religious identity of the individuals who live in Romania and
consider themselves, by origin, to belong to the Russian minority and
accordingly, of the individuals who live in the Russian Federation and consider
themselves, by origin, to belong to the Romanian minority, irrespective of how
they may be called within the social context and of the region where they may
live in the territory under jurisdiction of each of the Contracting Parties.
To this purpose, the Contracting Parties apply the regulations and standards of
the United Nations Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Article
12
The
Contracting Parties, by the agency of their competent organs, cooperate to devise
solutions to spot, record, properly arrange and preserve the Romanian military
burial places and memorials on the territory of the Russian Federation, and
vice versa, the Russian Federation military burial places and memorials on the
Romanian territory.
Article
13
The
Contracting Parties provide the required background for direct contacts between
political trade union professional women youth organisations
and associations in both states.
They stimulate direct contacts between the administrative-territorial units and
public administration organs in
Article
14
The
Contracting Parties take joint action against international terrorism
irrespective of the form it may occur. They declare in favour
of the consolidation of international cooperation concerning the annihilation
of both the traditional and recent acts of terrorist threats, in accordance
with the stipulations in the Charter of the United Nations Organisation
and other international law regulations.
The Contracting Parties cooperate in the fight against organised
crime, black market money, traffic of drug and psychotropic substances,
weapons, nuclear matter, smuggling, cultural goods smuggling included.
The Contracting Parties improve the mechanisms of mutual juridical assistance
in criminal, common and family cases.
Article
15
The
Contracting Parties encourage the extension of the contacts at the level of the
citizens in the two states, and also travelling for
business, economic, cultural, scientific and private purposes.
Article
16
The
Contracting Parties cooperate within those international organisations
to which they are or will be members to fulfil the
commitments that have been undertaken within these international organisations.
Article
17
To
effect the stipulations herein, the Contracting Parties conclude the necessary
agreements.
Article
18
The
present Treaty does not endanger the rights and obligations of the Contracting
Parties that result from other international agreements to which they are
parties.
The present Treaty does not oppose any third state.
Article
19
The
present Treaty will be subject to ratification and will be put into force on
the 30th day from the date when the ratification instruments have
been exchanged.
The present Treaty remains valid over a span of 10 years.
The validity of the Treaty will be automatically extended over successive spans
of 5 years provided that neither of the Parties informs the other Party in
writing about the intention of denouncing it within at least one year in
advance from the due date.
Signed in
ON
BEHALF OF ON
BEHALF OF
R O M A N I A THE
JOINT
DECLARATION
of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs
In the spirit of the Treaty concerning the relationship founded on friendly and
cooperative terms that has been agreed upon today, reaffirming the common wish
to develop cooperation in various fields on the basis of reciprocal trust we
have reached the joint opinion regarding the need to close the painful episodes
recorded in the history of the bilateral relationship. We firmly condemn both
the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact in 1939 and Romania’s
participation in the Second World War as an ally of Hitler’s Germany, and both
parties reinforce the decision to overcome the negative burden of the
totalitarian past and build up relationships on the new fundament of the
radical changes that both Russia and Romania have recently been undergoing, and
also of the positive ever growing experience of interstate relationships.
We
deem important that a joint commission of public interest, invested with
authority, consisting of historians but also of finance, economy, archive, and
museum specialists and other professionals whose assistance may be required
according to the circumstances, should proceed to a thorough analysis of the
problems that have resulted out of the bilateral relationship history, the
issue of the Romanian Treasure included. The commission shall be granted the
necessary assistance to constitute itself and to properly function.
The
parties have consented that fundamental democratic changes of the political
systems in both Romania and Russia, the unconditional observance of the human
personality dignity and rights, and of other civil society values, can open a favourable way to a new episode in the history of the
Romanian and Russian relationships when our countries and nations will
cooperate as equal partners, deepening and widening the bonds of friendship.
Minister
of foreign affairs of
Mircea
GEOANĂ Igor
IVANOV