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  • September 25, 2022 UPDATE

    September 25, 2022 UPDATE

    GRAIN 211 ships carrying 4.7 million tons of agricultural products have
    so far left Ukraine under an agreement brokered by the United Nations and
    Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, the ministry of infrastructure in
    Ukraine has announced. The agreement signed on July 22nd in Istanbul
    provides for setting up safe corridors for the transport of Ukrainian grain.
    Ukraine’s grain exports slumped after the Russian invasion in late February and
    the blockade on the country’s Black Sea ports, driving up global food prices
    and prompting fears of shortages in Africa and the Middle East. Ukraine, a
    major grain producer and exporter, used to have monthly grain shipments up to 6
    million tons before the war. After the Russian invasion, Ukraine had to shift
    to the road and river transport infrastructures to ship its grain to Eastern
    Europe, but the quantities exported have been significantly lower due to some
    logistic shortcomings.

    MEDALS Romanian rowers walked away with four gold medals from the World
    Championships in Racice, the Czech Republic. The winners are the lightweight
    single women’s scull, the men’s double scull, the women’s double scull and the
    women’s eight. The Romanian delegation participated with 11 boats and managed
    to qualify in nine finals. In the medals’ standings Britain ranks first
    followed by Italy and Romania. At the previous edition of the aforementioned
    competition in Ottensheim, Austria, the Romanian men’s four and women’s double
    sculls obtained two silver medals.










    VISIT Over September 26-28, Romania’s Prime Minister, Nicolae
    Ciuca is paying a visit to Tokyo to participate in the state funeral staged in
    the honor of the country’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. According to a
    government communiqué, the former Japanese Prime Minister made a significant
    contribution to lifting the bilateral relations between the two countries to
    the degree of a strategic partnership during the visit he paid to Bucharest in
    2018, being the first Japanese Prime Minister to have visited Romania. Japan
    is one of Romania’s main partners in Asia both at political and economic level
    and there are all the prerequisites to transform this bilateral relation spanning
    more than one century into a privileged relation at the level of strategic
    partnership, Prime Minister Ciuca has said. On the sidelines of his visit to
    Tokyo, the Romanian official will be received by his Japanese counterpart Fumio
    Kishida and will be having talks with the delegation of the Japan-Romania
    Parliamentary Friendship League chaired by Ichiro Aisawa and with Hosoda
    Hiroyuki, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.










    REFUGEES Roughly 10,400 Ukrainian nationals entered Romania on Saturday,
    6.3% more than in the previous day, the Romanian border police have announced.
    Since February 10th, over 2.4 million Ukrainians have entered
    Romania most of them transiting it. In the past 24 hours, the Romanian
    authorities have issued 77 residence permits for the Ukrainian citizens. According to the
    Interior Ministry in Bucharest, 70 thousand such permits have been issued since
    March 18th. Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, roughly
    44 hundred Ukrainians have applied for asylum in Romania.










    IT Romania has this week become European champion in the
    2022 Junior Informatics Olympiad. According to the Society for Excellence and
    Performance in Computing, students from Romania won two gold, four silver and
    one bronze medal at the aforementioned competition staged online by Ukraine,
    which brought together 170 competitors from 132 countries. The winners are
    students from the cities of Bucharest and Ploiesti in southern Romania and
    according to the teachers training them Romania is the only country that has
    managed to win gold in every edition of the aforementioned competition.




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  • September 25, 2022

    September 25, 2022

    GRAIN 211 ships carrying 4.7 million tons of agricultural products have
    so far left Ukraine under an agreement brokered by the United Nations and
    Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, the ministry of infrastructure in
    Ukraine has announced. The agreement signed on July 22nd in Istanbul
    provides for setting up safe corridors for the transport of Ukrainian grain.
    Ukraine’s grain exports slumped after the Russian invasion in late February and
    the blockade on the country’s Black Sea ports, driving up global food prices
    and prompting fears of shortages in Africa and the Middle East. Ukraine, a
    major grain producer and exporter, used to have monthly grain shipments up to 6
    million tons before the war. After the Russian invasion, Ukraine had to shift
    to the road and river transport infrastructures to ship its grain to Eastern
    Europe, but the quantities exported have been significantly lower due to some
    logistic shortcomings.








    ELECTION Italy might for the first time have a woman as a Prime Minister after
    the legislative election today. And also for the first time since WWII, the far
    right could come to power. According to the polls, Brothers of Italy, a party led
    by Giorgia Meloni, with origins in a fascist movement is likely to gather
    almost 25% of the votes. The far-right coalition, which is expected to win 50%
    of the votes, also includes Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s
    Forza Italia. The pro-European left wing is expected to muster fewer than 30%
    of the total number of votes. According to Radio Romania correspondent in
    Italy, in spite of the importance of this election, many Italians aren’t going
    to the polls, which might destabilize the domestic situation. Polls show that
    90% of the Italians are worried by soaring energy prices. Parties came with a
    wide range of solutions, although not all of them have been presented clearly.










    VISIT Over September 26-28, Romania’s Prime Minister, Nicolae
    Ciuca is paying a visit to Tokyo to participate in the state funeral staged in
    the honor of the country’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. According to a
    government communiqué, the former Japanese Prime Minister made a significant
    contribution to lifting the bilateral relations between the two countries to
    the degree of a strategic partnership during the visit he paid to Bucharest in
    2018, being the first Japanese Prime Minister to have visited Romania. Japan
    is one of Romania’s main partners in Asia both at political and economic level
    and there are all the prerequisites to transform this bilateral relation
    spanning more than one century in a privileged relation at the level of
    strategic partnership, Prime Minister Ciuca has said. On the sidelines of his
    visit to Tokyo, the Romanian official will be received by his Japanese
    counterpart Fumio Kishida and will be having talks with the delegation of the
    Japan-Romania Parliamentary Friendship League chaired by Ichiro Aisawa and with
    Hosoda Hiroyuki, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.










    SPORT The Romanian women’s double scull as well as women’s and men’s
    eights from Romania are today participating in three finals of the World Rowing
    Championships underway in Racice, the Czech Republic. The Romanian men’s double
    scull made up of Marius Cozmiuc and Sergiu Bejan became gold medalist on
    Saturday while on Friday Ionela Cozmiuc of Romania came first in the
    lightweight women’s single scull race. We recall that Cozmiuc also walked away
    with gold from the European Championships in Munich this summer.










    REFUGEES According to sources with the Romanian Border Police, 10,385
    Ukrainian citizens entered Romania on Saturday, 6.3% more than in the previous
    day. Since February 10th, 2,408,155 Ukrainian nationals have entered
    Romania. Checking at Romania’s borders has been done in accordance with the
    provisions of the national and community legislation.




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