The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) will participate for the first time in the 'Night of Museums' event taking place on Saturday, displaying archive documents recently declassified and prepared for public access at the exhibition space within the Foreign Ministry's Information Office on Calea Victoriei No. 88, between 18:00 and 22:00.

As part of the exhibition entitled 'Romanian Democracy - Beginnings', the public will be able to view original documents produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) after January 1, 1990, illustrating the Romanian authorities' reaction to the return to the country of King Michael I, the June 13-15, 1990 Mineriad and the international reactions triggered by these events, as well as Romania's relations with the Soviet Union amid unprecedented domestic changes and the evolving global security climate, the MAE said in a press release sent to AGERPRES.

The Government recently adopted, at the MAE's proposal, a decision to declassify documents produced by the ministry between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 1992.

In the coming period, the documents will undergo inventorying, archival processing and digitisation before being made available to the public as the files are prepared in line with archival standards.

The 'Night of Museums' event, during which more than 300 museums and cultural institutions across the country open their doors to the public, is now in its 22nd edition in Romania. It is a cultural project launched in 2005 under the aegis of the Council of Europe and coordinated by the European Museum Organisations Network. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Andreea Rotaru; EN - writing by: Simona Iacob)