President Klaus Iohannis and his wife arrived in Tanzania on Thursday to be received by Head of State Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday. Klaus Iohannis was received by Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Angela Kairuki at Julius Nyerere International Airport.

“The President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, arrived in the country on a state visit on November 16-19, 2023 at the invitation of the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr. Samia Solution Hassan,” the message reads. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania sent, News.ro quotes.

Klaus Iohannis was received by Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Angela Kairuki at Julius Nyerere International Airport.

The purpose of the visit is to attract more investments and attract more tourists from Romania, the Tanzanian Foreign Ministry notes.

In addition, during the official dialogue on November 17, the two presidents will discuss the best way to promote and strengthen cooperation in the fields of education, health care, agriculture, energy and minerals.

Johannis is going to Zanzibar on Saturday

Before leaving the country on November 19, the President of Romania will travel to Zanzibar, where he will hold talks with President Dr. Hussein Ali Mwini and visit the old city, the Stone City, which is one of the world’s top tourist attractions. the ministry emphasizes.

The next legs of Iohannis’ African tour include a state visit to the Republic of Cape Verde and an official visit to Senegal.

According to the Presidential Administration, the visits of the President of Romania to Africa are the first political and diplomatic approach at this level in the last 30 years and are aimed at restoring Romania’s relations with the African continent.

Safari and African dance in Kenya for Johannis

Before arriving in Tanzania, President Klaus Iohannis was in Kenya, where he went on safari with Carmen Iohannis on Wednesday, the second day of his 10-day tour of Africa.

The president began his tour of Africa on Tuesday, with the first stop in Kenya, where Klaus and Carmen Johannis were received by President William Ruto at the State House in Nairobi.

On Wednesday, the official schedule released by the Presidential Administration did not show any events, but the Kenya Wildlife Service posted photos on social media of Klaus and Carmen Johannis on safari.

On Thursday, they visited a girls’ secondary school in Nairobi where they also saw a traditional dance and the first lady was also invited to join.

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Klaus Johannis’ most expensive visits – The Recorder’s Investigation

The tour to Africa is the third tour of the head of state this year, after Asia (March) and South America (April).

A new Recorder investigation shows that some of President Klaus Iohannis’s foreign trips, the cost of which is kept secret by the presidential administration, ended up costing even more than a million euros. The president refuses to disclose the expenses, even though it is public money. Recorder consulted with market experts and approximated the cost of flights, taking into account their public information (location, departure time, destination, etc.) available on platforms such as FlightRadar24.

Recorder journalists also show that the president of Romania was the only one in the European Union who decided to go to the coronation of King Charles III on a private plane. The cost of the flight, which had a stopover in Sibiu, was approximately 85,000 euros, the Recorder reports. This is in the context of the fact that the presidents of such countries as Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia or Finland spent about two to three thousand euros on a trip to Great Britain, that is, 40 times less than what the administration of the president of Romania spent.

Recorder journalists show that the flight of Johannis to dinner in Rotterdam on a sleeper plane (although the flight lasted only two hours) with a crew of three people and six passengers cost 170 thousand euros. Flight Bucharest – Reykjavik – Sibiu, for the international meeting of the leaders of the states: over 260,000 euros.

According to Recorder journalists, the Asian and South American tour of President Iohannis with a visit to Sibiu cost more than a million euros.

Similar expenses in the case of the president’s visit to Latin America: Brazil, Chile and Argentina: approximately 1.2 million euros.

When he was flying, also by private plane, to Brussels for a meeting of the European Council with a stopover in Sibiu, Iohannis left Bucharest, stopped in Sibiu and then landed in Brussels. From there, he returned to Romania, to Constanta (without an official schedule), and the expenses amounted to more than 200,000 euros.

The record also shows that when Yohannis was asked about the secrecy of information about his foreign travel expenses, he said that “It’s the law,” although that’s not true because there’s no law that says that information has to be public. secrets

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