Dimitrie Iurașcu – ministru plenipotențiar al României în Norvegia (1934-1939)
Dimitrie Iurașcu – Minister Plenipotentiary of Romania in Norway (1934-1939)

Summary/Abstract: During his time as minister of Romania in Norway, D. Iurașcu maintained a good collaboration with the Oslo authorities and with resounding names of the Norwegian political life. He monitored the press of the country in the attempt to maintain a favourable image of Romania in the Norwegian society. To this end, the Romanian diplomat got actively involved in promoting Romania and gave numerous interviews to the Norwegian press. Another aspect of his activity in Oslo was his interest in intensifying the economic rapports between Romania and Norway, which he considered the basis of bilateral relations between the two states. Despite Iurașcu’s efforts, economical relations between Romania and Norway in the last inter-war years did not witness spectacular evolution neither in the dynamics of commercial exchanges, nor in the diversification of the range of commercialized products. Seen from a different perspective, however, Iurașcu’s presence in Oslo was an ‘anchor’ through which Romanian diplomacy was connected to the Norwegian, as well as what was happening in the neighboring (USSR, Germany, the Atlantic area). This is why the reports D. Iurașcu sent to the central administration of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs contain various information on the situation in Norway and Northern Europe.For Iurașcu, the years spent as chief of a small legation such as the on in Oslo were still a step ahead in his diplomatic career, which would end in 1947.

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