ForMin Melescanu meets Malaysian official, pleads for commutation of death sentence for two Romanians

Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Melescanu has firmly pleaded for the commutation of the death sentence in the case of the two Romanian citizens sentenced to death in Malaysia, during the meeting he had on Thursday with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in this country, Dato' Seri Ramlan bin Ibrahim, informs MAE. 

Teodor Melescanu welcomed Dato' Seri Ramlan bin Ibrahim, who is paying a visit to Bucharest for a round of bilateral consultations. 

"On this occasion, the head of Romanian diplomacy firmly pleaded for the commutation of the death sentence in the case of the two Romanian citizens sentenced to the capital punishment in Malaysia, while voicing hope for a fair treatment of the third detainee, who is still on trial. In this context, the Minister hailed the recent initiative of the Government in Putrajaya to initiate a draft law on abolishing the capital punishment," specified MAE. 

They also evoked the very good cooperation existing at the level of the international organisations, highlighting the opportunities of strengthening the EU-Malaysia opportunities, ahead of the signing of the Agreement for Cooperation and Partnership. 

Moreover, the Malaysian official had consultations with Secretary General of the MAE Cosmin Dinescu, with whom he reviewed the current stage of the bilateral relations and the cooperation fields with development potential. The two officials agreed on the need to extend the bilateral legal framework, for a proper transposition of the new economic and social realities of the relation between the two states. 

The two diplomats underscored their common objective of boosting the economic relation between Romania and Malaysia, on which occasion they discussed the recent evolutions regarding the European Parliament's and Council's proposal to promote renewable energy (RED II) and the measures taken by the Malaysian Government to ensure a sustainable production of palm oil, considering Malaysia's position as palm oil exporter (2nd exporter worldwide), reads the same release. 

The Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia also paid a visit to the Consular Department, where he participates in an exchange of good practices in the consular assistance field, on which occasion they discussed in detail the situation of the Romanians sentenced to death in Malaysia. 

"Dato' Seri Ramlan bin Ibrahim reiterated the Malaysian Government's commitment to abolish the capital punishment, while underscoring that the process meant to revise this normative act, during which there was issued a moratorium regarding the executions, needs to pass through the corresponding procedures in the Malaysian Parliament," informs MAE.