“The Faculty of Law in Bucharest will find solutions to annul the visas between Moldova and Romania and to demolish the wall over the Prut,” Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said Wednesday during a festivity held to mark 150 years of the foundation of the faculty, Info-Prim Neo's correspondent in Bucharest reports. As a graduate of this faculty, the mayor thanked the teachers for being demanding. “Many years have passed since I mounted these steps and I'm thrilled,” the mayor said. “I would like to contribute to the development of the faculty, to the formation of new characters and personalities so that its graduates take care of Romania's, Moldova's and other states' tomorrow.” Asked if he does not regret not making a career in law, Chirtoaca said that the position he holds offers enormous possibilities of putting the knowledge gained at the faculty into practice. The mayor said that the Faculty of Law is a generator of ideas that built the history. “During the recent referendum, 90% the Romanians from Moldova voted in favor of forming a unicameral Parliament, which appeared at the Faculty of Law,” Chirtoaca said. Attending the ceremony, Romania's Acting President Traian Basescu said the quality education based on competitiveness is the key to the nation's development. “The Faculty of Law showed that it was and remains a center of excellence in jurisprudence,” Basescu said. “The faculty had good students and teachers. Five Prime Ministers of Romania and the mayors of Bucharest, Iasi and Chisinau studied here.” In gratitude for the excellent results, Traian Basescu awarded the Order of Merit Medal, Great Officer Category, to the Faculty of Law in Bucharest. The branch of the Sorbonne University working as part of the Faculty of Law – the French-Romanian College of European Studies – was awarded the Order of Merit Medal, Knight Category. The president of the Court of Justice of the European Communities Vassilios Skouris stressed that the Faculty of Law in Bucharest is the most prestigious academic institution in Romania and is recognized internationally. According to him, about 30 Romanian jurists, including Bessarabian, work for the ECHR and are highly professional. Last year, Alin Tantar from Moldova was named head of the degree class of the Faculty of Law in Bucharest.