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  • August 18, 2022 UPDATE

    August 18, 2022 UPDATE

    VISIT
    Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Thursday paid a visit to Prague at
    the invitation of his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky as this country is presently
    holding the EU rotating presidency. Talks focused on prospects of deepening the
    bilateral political-diplomatic dialogue as well as strengthening the sectoral
    cooperation in fields of mutual interest such as energy, transport, logistics,
    tourism and agriculture. The two ministers also referred to the joint
    objectives at European level in the wake of the Summit in Madrid and before the
    upcoming NATO Foreign Ministers meeting Romania is to host in autumn. The two
    sides discussed the multidimensional impact of the Russian aggression against
    Ukraine. The two ministers had an exchange of opinions on the regional
    security, the situation of the Ukrainian refugees and the impact on other key
    issues such as food safety and energy security. Topical issues on the European
    agenda were also discussed and Minister Lipavsky reiterated his country’s
    staunch support for Romania’s Schengen accession.








    COVID-19 On Thursday Romania’s Health
    Ministry announced 55 hundred new cases of Covid-19. 35 hundred people are
    presently being treated in hospitals out of whom 269 in ICUs. 24 related
    fatalities have also been reported in the past 24 hours.






    CHAMPION Romanian swimmer
    David Popovici, gold medalist in the 100m and 200m freestyle events, was named
    the best athlete in the men’s swimming events at the European Aquatics
    Championships in Rome, according to the Romanian Swimming and Modern Pentathlon
    Federation. In a score-based ranking, following the best performances in the
    competition, David Popovici came in first in the men’s category with 1,003
    points, while in the women’s category the Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte was the
    first with 985 points. David Popovici, 17, became, on Saturday, in Rome, the
    world record holder in the 100 m freestyle race with 46 seconds and 86
    hundredths. Later, on Monday, he also won the gold medal in the 200 m freestyle
    event. With 1 minute 42 seconds and 97 hundredths, he set, also in this event,
    a new world and European record.




    ATHLETICS Romanian
    athlete Bianca Florentina Ghelber won the gold medal in the hammer throw event,
    on Wednesday, at the European Athletics Championships in Munich. Ghelber,32, who
    ranked sixth at the Tokyo Olympics last year, won the final in Munich with
    72.72 meters, ahead of the Polish Ewa Rozanska, 72.12 m, and the Italian Sara
    Fantini, 71.58 m. Thus, Romania won the first continental gold medal in
    athletics after a break of 20 years. Also in Munich, Romania secured new medals
    at the individual European Table Tennis Championships, in the women’s doubles
    event. Four Romanians are in the semifinals, the phase that secures the bronze
    medals, so there will definitely be at least one player in the finals. Romania
    has already got a silver medal at the European Table Tennis Championships in
    the mixed doubles event, won by Bernadette Szocs and Ovidiu Ionescu.


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  • June 25, 2022 UPDATE

    June 25, 2022 UPDATE

    UKRAINE Scores of
    Russian rockets on Saturday rained down on military targets in western and
    northern Ukraine, Reuters and AFP report. According to the governor of the Lviv
    region, six missiles were fired from the Black Sea at the Yavoriv base, with
    four hitting the base and two being intercepted and destroyed before hitting
    the targets. The governor of the Zhytomyr region in the north of the country
    said that strikes on a military objective in the area killed at least one
    soldier. In the northern region of Chernihiv, governor Vyacheslav Chaus said
    that the town of Desna had come under rocket strikes on Saturday morning.
    Ukrainian forces were forced to pull out of Severdonetsk after weeks of heavy
    fighting. According to sources with the Ukrainian army, Russia used the
    airspace of Belarus to hit targets in Ukraine.








    FINA Romanian swimmer Robert Glinta came fourth in the finals of the 50
    meters backstroke race of the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.
    Last night Glinta came sixth in the 100 meter backstroke event. Another
    Romanian, David Popvici, double champion in the 100 and 200 meters freestyle
    races, is to be awarded by Romanian president Klaus Iohannis the Star of
    Romania national order in rank of knight.






    SUMMIT Romanian president
    Klaus Iohannis has attended the European Council in Brussels during which the
    Republic of Moldova and Ukraine have been granted the status of EU-candidate
    countries. The European leaders have also tackled the ways in which the EU members
    can avoid a major energy crisis in winter. High on the summit agenda was the
    situation in Ukraine, the bloc’s relation with the Western Balkans as well as a
    series of economic issues. Iohannis has reiterated Romania’s consistent support
    for Kiev and presented the efforts to facilitate the exports of Ukrainian
    cereals adding that Romania’s ports and transport corridors are functioning at
    full capacity. During the Euro summit in Brussels, president Iohannis has
    reiterated his conviction for the European future of the countries in the
    Western Balkans and the support for the opening as soon as possible of the
    talks with North Macedonia and Albania and the identification of solutions for
    the process of bringing Bosnia-Herzegovina closer to the union.






    ATTACK The alleged
    assailant on Friday night in Oslo is a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin who
    is known to the intelligence services, a police official said on Saturday. He
    didn’t reveal the identity of the suspect, but mentioned the assailant’s previous
    brushes with the law for carrying weapons and drug possession. The attack in
    downtown Oslo left two dead and 21 wounded, out of whom 10 severely. According
    to police sources, the suspect was being held on suspicion of murder, attempted
    murder and terrorism, based on the number of people targeted at multiple
    locations.








    NATO At the NATO summit in
    Madrid next week, the Black Sea region will be acknowledged as having a
    strategic importance in the collective defence and battle groups in Romania and
    other eastern countries could be given the status of brigades. The alliance’s
    deputy secretary general, Mircea Geoana said the summit would bring good news
    for Romania, but also for Ukraine for the transatlantic relation and the
    alliance per se. ‘From the military and security viewpoints’, Geoana says ‘and
    because Russia is an unpredictable and aggressive player, Romania will have the
    same quality in terms of national security as Germany and Belgium. There will
    be no difference in what NATO has on the eastern flank and in Western Europe.
    Next week we are going to attend the NATO summit in Madrid and we are expecting
    historic news for Romania’. The talks in Madrid will also be focusing on the
    requests from Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, although no decision is
    expected in this respect because of Turkey’s opposition.










    FESTIVAL Until July 3rd, the city of Sibiu in central Romania is
    seeing the International Theatre Festival currently at its 29th
    edition. The festival, which is unfolding under a theme simply entitled
    Beauty, includes productions of theatre, dance, circus, film, musical and
    opera. Street performances, concerts, book launches and exhibitions have also
    been included in the festival’s agenda. For ten days artists of the world stage
    are offering the public the possibility of enjoying live performances that have
    been acknowledged at international level being also recipients of prestigious
    awards.




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