The sense of humor

Gentlemen, I was just kidding!

When I said in an article that we would have been better off giving our energy companies to the Russians, I was joking (see the end of the article THE PROPRIETATEA FUND / A "scam" against the Russians, of March 7th).

I was joking!

I hear that you didn't understand and that you took it seriously.

I see that Mark Mobius, about whom there are rumors going about that he is a legend and I've had the opportunity to realize that was true, sits on the board of directors of Lukoil Russia.

Who is Mark Mobius?

Mark Mobius is the head of Franklin Templeton.

What is Franklin Templeton?

I do not know.

It used to be the manager of the Proprietatea Fund.

But not anymore.

So, I don't know what Franklin Templeton is, or who Mark Mobius is.

They may both be legends.

These legends are selling off the part of the Romanian energy sector which the Proprietatea Fund has in its portfolio, which they have nothing to do with (according to the court ruling).

Instead of viewing this as a joke, prime minister Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu met with said legends in question last Friday, because he also wants to sell parts of the Romanian energy sector, which the Romanian state has in its portfolio.

OK.

Lucian Bode, the minister of the economy, is meeting Oleg Sergheevici Malghinov, the Russian ambassador in Bucharest today.

OK.

By 2015, Serbian company Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), in which Gazprom is a majority shareholder, wants to invest a few hundred million Euros in Romania and to also develop the electricity sector, by becoming an integrated company.

OK.

I'm a little confused on this: are you actually selling them to the Russians?

Gentlemen, it was just a joke!