Sursa foto: mae.ro The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, welcomed, on Tuesday, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) headquarters, the Secretary General of the Community of Democracies (CoD), Thomas Garrett, who is on a working visit to Bucharest, in the context of the periodic consultation of the Romanian Presidency of the CoD with the organization's secretariat. According to the MAE, during discussions, Minister Bogdan Aurescu emphasized the renewed commitments of Romania to support the activity of the CoD and to promote democratic principles and values at the global level, in the context of the decision to expand by one year the mandate of the Romanian Presidency, assumed initially in the 2019-2021 period, until September 2022.