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Romania President Traian Basescu will not participate in the summit of Central and Eastern European countries to take place in Warsaw between May 27 and May 28, as Poland has decided to invite “an entity” Romania does not recognize as state, the president's spokesman, Valeriu Turcan, said Wednesday.

The UK Embassy to Bucharest said Monday new visa procedures for citizens who want to travel to the United Kingdom will be enforced starting February 15, so that visa applications submitted by non-EU citizens present in Romania and Bulgaria will be processed in Warsaw.

Romanian president Traian Basescu signed the decree recalling the Romanian Ambassador to Warsaw, Gabriel Constantin Bartas, after saying, in May, that Bartas did not inform him on the Crulic case, which is why he would demand his recall.

Romania’s foreign affairs minister, Lazar Comanescu, told a press conference Thursday that all procedures targeting the return of Romanian ambassador to Warsaw, Gabriel Constantin Bartas, have been initiated.

Romanian foreign affairs minister Adrian Cioroianu said he would meet with prime minister Calin Tariceanu during the evening and added the Romanian consul in Warsaw might be recalled because of "discrepancies" occurring in his statements.