After the leadership of the Chamber of Deputies approved George Simion’s trip to the United States on Monday, the foundation that organized the event withdrew the invitation on Tuesday. Officially, the Israel Heritage Foundation told the AUR leader that it “has not received confirmation regarding the September 18 dinner with Pompeo.” In response, Simion accuses Romania’s ambassador to the US, Andrei Murau, of intervening by phone to rescind the invitation.
“After further consideration and in the spirit of unity, I regret to inform you that the Israel Heritage Fund is unable to honor your participation as we have not received confirmation regarding the dinner with Pompeo on September 18,” said the head of AUR at the Israel Heritage Fund.
In addition, the organizers said in the letter that invitations will be sent to attend meetings with Fox News personalities and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
- Israel Heritage Foundation – invitation
- Israel Heritage invitation rejection document
Simion accuses the Romanian ambassador to the US of “extreme pressure”
After the postponement of the invitation, AUR leader George Simion accused the Romanian ambassador in Washington and the Romanian government of “extreme pressure” to prevent the meeting with Mike Pompeo from taking place.
“What happened has an unprecedented seriousness. Our ambassador to the USA, Mr. Muraru, called to postpone this Sunday meeting, to somehow prevent it and not to hold it again (…) The Romanian government also called Washington and the foundation, which invited us so that we would not get there. These people are using their official powers as dignitaries of the Romanian state to stop our political activities. This is an unprecedented thing,” Simion said in the parliament.
On Monday, the AUR group asked the Permanent Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies to approve the trip of AUR MP George Simion to the US to honor an invitation from the Israel Heritage Foundation to a dinner in honor of Mike Pompeo, the former secretary. states for Donald Trump.
“I would like to draw your attention to the fact that George Nicolae Simion, Deputy Head of the AUR Parliamentary Group, has been invited by the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Global Ethics to participate in a meeting organized on September 18, 2022 in New York. , USA, Israel Heritage Foundation. (…) Please organize the necessary arrangements for the trip with the support of the budget of the Chamber of Deputies,” reads the request made by the leader of the parliamentary group, Antonio Andruschak.
The Chamber of Deputies at a meeting on Monday approved the request of the AUR group, returning to the decision to cancel the trip of the AUR leader.
Background to the postponement of Simeon’s visit to the USA
At the beginning of the year, in connection with the postponement of the Romanian language olympiad and other disciplines due to the pandemic, the party under the leadership of George Simion issued a press release in which it accused the Romanian state of “ideological experiments” on Romanian children and emphasized that the Holocaust is ” secondary topic” that does not deserve to be reduced to the “rank” of the subject of research.
The press release drew a public backlash from the Israeli embassy and the Elie Wiesel Institute, which called it “offensive statements that ‘downplay the tragedy of the Holocaust.’
Source: Hot News RU
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