
According to Realitatea, Lazurca, proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for accreditation as Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Moldova, received 20 votes "for" and one "against".
We specify that Chisinau authorities had previously accepted Lazurca as Romanian ambassador to Chisinau.
Marius Gabriel Lazurca is 38 years old. He studied in Sorbonne. He was assigned ambassador of Vatican at the end of 2006. Before joining political life, Marius Gabriel Lazurca was a professor at the West University of Timisoara and Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. He speaks English and French fluently and Italian and Latin well. He is also the author and co-author of a number of works about anthropology, History and Philology.
The post of Ambassador of Romania to Chisinau remained vacant since April 2009, when the former ambassador Filip Teodorescu had been expelled by the Moldovan communist authorities because of the street riots in the Moldovan capital city.