Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku began his official visit to the United States of America at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he commemorated the victims of genocide during World War II on Sunday, Agerpres reports.

He ended his tour of the museum in the Hall of Remembrance, a quiet place where he lit a candle together with members of the official delegation. Then Marcel Cholaku signed the book of honor of the museum.

The Romanian delegation was accompanied by US Ambassador to Romania Kathleen Kavalek and Romanian Ambassador to the US Andrey Murau.

The director of the institution Sarah Bloomfield was the guide of the delegation in the memorial museum. She told the prime minister that Romania is considered a leader in remembering the history of the Holocaust. “Thank you very much,” she said.

At the same time, he spoke about the symbolism of the Museum, about the “rupture of Western civilization” in the Second World War and about “how it became possible for some people to do this to other people, what started in the country. like Germany, with a highly educated, highly developed population, with a democratic constitution, the rule of law, which slipped into genocide.” Thus, according to Bloomfield, the Museum speaks “about the role of the United States in the world and about all people who care about the future of freedom and human dignity.”

Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku is on an official visit to the USA until Wednesday

On Sunday evening, the head of the executive power will meet with representatives of the Romanian community in the Washington-Virginia-Maryland region.

On Monday, he will attend an official wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington Cemetery for Heroes in Washington. The ceremony includes a 19-gun salute and a flag salute.

After that, the Prime Minister of Romania will meet in the Pentagon with the Secretary of Defense of the USA Lloyd Austin and the head of the American diplomacy Anthony Blinken. Later in the day, he will also meet with Jennifer Granholm, the US Secretary of Energy.

Marcel Ciolacu is on an official visit to Washington and New York until Wednesday with a government delegation that includes Defense Minister Angel Tilvar, Foreign Minister Luminica Odobescu and Economy Minister Radu Oprea.

According to a government statement, he will have meetings with several high-ranking US officials. Thus, the Prime Minister will meet with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the US State Department. The head of the executive power will also hold meetings with Defense Minister Lloyd Austin and US Energy Minister Jennifer Granholm.

Meetings in New York with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis are also an important moment of the visit.

The program of the visit also includes meetings with representatives of the leadership of the Armed Forces Committee in the House of Representatives, Mike Rogers and Adam Smith, with the co-chairs of the Committee on International Relations of the US Senate, Senators Ben Cardin. and James Risch and House Romania Friendship Caucus Co-Chairs Mike Turner and Alyssa Slotkin.

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