Former President Traian Basescu attacked the US Ambassador to Bucharest, Hans Klemm. The former head of state says that the message conveyed by the ambassador to the young who protested in the streets was a "destabilizing" one.
"I was surprised by the intervention of the US ambassador. He could barely help not to say we should stay in the square. They did the same in Egypt. Mubarak left and the Muslim Brotherhood came in power. It's hard to understand. There may be political allies who want to see you weak, so that you should eat from their palm, so they can use you. In my time, they did not dare conduct such a policy. [...] I do not want to be offensive, but I want to say that the actions of some ambassadors of some countries many times over the last months were unwarranted . The ambassador says "stay in the streets to destabilize Romania, it is not enough to have destabilized Moldova and Ukraine". The ( American Ambassador) should have been summoned to the Foreign Ministry and warned”, Băsescu stated on B1 TV.
The US Ambassador Hans Klemm, urged Romanians Thursday to "stay involved in the civic process".