Romanian Royal Family, welcomed by Guard of Honour at Kildare military base in Ireland: A lot of things unite us
AGERPRES special correspondent Florin Zafiu reports: Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, and His Royal Highness Prince Radu were welcomed, on Thursday, by the Guard of Honour at the Kildare Military Base in Ireland, as part of the official visit that the Royal Family is currently paying to Dublin.
The Royal Family representatives visited the base and the military college, accompanied by Irish officials and the Romanian Ambassador to Ireland, Laurentiu-Mihai Stefan.
The Military College is responsible for providing training to the Defence Forces. The training includes career courses, infantry support weapons, senior management courses and training abroad.
The military camp is the main training centre for the Irish Defence Forces, hosting thousands of soldiers.
Her Majesty (HM) Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, and His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Radu were welcomed by the Guard of Honour, as part of the military component of their foreign visit to Ireland.
'It is a small army compared to Romania and most of the countries in the European Union, but it is an army with an extraordinary tradition. It is very intelligent the way they put together the entire defense system - they call the Department of Defense their ministry and they have a single training center for both practical and theoretical in this huge campus that is more than 150 years old. It was established during the United Kingdom, during Queen Victoria, in the mid-19th century and has benefited from all this continuity and tradition. Their rigor and their perfection as an army comes from hundreds of years of tradition. The number of soldiers is not very large, it is a neutral country, and what they do here is of the highest quality. Both we and the representatives of the Romanian Ministry of National Defense who accompanied us evoked the fact that the Irish have a lot of experience in missions United Nations peacekeeping. They have been doing this for 70 years without interruption and we all have something to learn from there,' HRH Prince Radu said.
The Royal Family's visit on Thursday concludes the Royal Family's external visit scheduled for June 23-27 to Ireland, the fourth in 2025.
'An unexpectedly beautiful experience, I knew that the Irish are very welcoming, but I did not expect such a perfect integration of the Romanian community. Romanians talk about this place, a place they would never leave for the sake of the way they are treated by others,' HRH Prince Radu emphasized.
During the official visit, HM Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, and HRH Prince Radu met with Joe Hackett, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Verona Murphy, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Senator Maria Byrne, Coordinator of the Romanian-Irish Friendship Group. At the Parish of Saint George the Great Martyr and Saint Columba in Dublin, the Custodian of the Crown and Prince Radu were received by Romanian parishioners and by the Bishop of Ireland and Iceland, His Eminence Nectarie.
An important point on the agenda of the foreign visit was the meeting of the Royal Family with the Ambassador of Romania to Ireland, Laurentiu-Mihai Stefan, followed by a meeting at the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Ireland, with Ambassador Jana Costachi and the Romanian community in Ireland. AGERPRES (RO - editing by: Anamaria Constantin; EN - writing by: Bogdan Gabaroi)
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