Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry to declassify thousands of diplomatic files from the 1990s Romanian foreign affairs minister Oana Țoiu announced on Thursday, April 30, that the government intends to declassify more than 5,000 diplomatic files from the first years of transition from the ministry archives.  In total, 5,376 files, kept in 768 archival folders, occupying approximately 100 linear meters of shelving, will be declassified. “It is the most substantial batch of diplomatic documents declassified since those from before 1989, and it covers a period of inflection in our recent history,” Țoiu said in a post on Facebook . The files regard the now-contested elections of May 1990, the subsequent miners’ riots, the visit of King Michael, and diplomatic correspondence with the USSR.