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Estonian Ambassador to Romania Taavi Toom presented his credentials to Romanian President Traian Băsescu on Monday, 12 April. Ambassador Taavi Toom resides in Warsaw.
In the conversation following the credential-presenting ceremony, Ambassador Taavi Toom and Romanian President Traian Băsescu primarily discussed bilateral relations. Ambassador Taavi Toom stated that relations between Estonia and Romania are good, but they could be more intensive in both the economic and political sectors.
Ambassador Toom passed along an invitation from President Toomas Hendrik Ilves for the Romanian president to visit Estonia in the spring of next year. The Romanian president confirmed during his meeting with the Estonian ambassador that a visit has been decided.
At the meeting, Ambassador Toom emphasised that Estonia and Romania have similar views on security policy and energy security policy. The ambassador also added that Estonia is interested in intensifying economic and trade as well as tourism-related contacts with Romania. Other topics addressed at the meeting included Estonia-Romania co-operation in the European Union and NATO. Ambassador Toom talked about Estonia’s candidacy to become the location for the EU IT agency.
Taavi Toom was born on 7 September 1970 in Tartu. In 1993 Toom graduated from the law department of Tartu University. Toom has worked in Estonia’s foreign service since 1994, when he came to work at the Foreign Ministry as the director of the European Union division. From 1996-1999 Toom worked at Estonia’s permanent representation to the European Union in Brussels. From 1999-2001 he was the Foreign Ministry’s press spokesperson. From 2001-2006, Taavi Toom was the Estonian ambassador to Denmark. Before assuming his current position, Toom was the director general of the Foreign Ministry’s European Union department. Taavi Toom has been the Estonian ambassador to Poland since August 2009 and resides in Warsaw.
Ambassador Taavi Toom is married and has three children. Toom speaks English, German, Russian, and French.
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