September 25, 2019
President Klaus Iohannis delivers speech at the 74th UN General Assembly, PM Viorica Dancila is on a working visit to the US
Newsroom, 25.09.2019, 14:01
Washington – The Romanian President Klaus Iohannis will deliver a speech today at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly under way in New York. The Romanian President’s participation in the meeting is a good opportunity to reiterate Romania’s commitment to multilateral governance in managing the main global challenges and to highlight the results Romania obtained in this respect during its presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2019. Klaus Iohannis will also take part in the high level political forum on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. On the occasion the Romanian President will present Romania’s progress in implementing the agenda, including the regional role Romania has assumed through the organization of events meant to promote regional partnerships to meet the agenda.
Visit — The Romanian PM Viorica Dancila is on a working visit to the US where she had a meeting, on Tuesday, with the secretary general of the OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Angel Gurria. During the meeting Mrs. Dancila underlined that Romania continued to be firmly committed to its aim of joining the organization and that it was ready to start negotiations in this regard. According to a government communiqué, the Romanian official highlighted Romania’s positive economic developments, the results of the reform program and the active participation of institutions from Romania in the activities, projects and programs of the OECD structures, as well as in the organization’s regional and global initiatives. The PM Dancila also met with the US Secretary of Energy Richard Perry with who she signed a document in the domain of civil nuclear power. During the meeting, the Romanian official expressed the Romanian government’s determination to develop the economic dimension of the US- Romania Strategic Partnership.
Electoral Bureau — In Bucharest, the Central Electoral Bureau is dealing, today and tomorrow, with possible appeals made against the candidacies for the November 10 presidential election. On Friday, the Bureau is to announce the final list of candidates. So far it has validated 14 candidates. On Tuesday, the Bureau rejected two candidacies and announced officially that it would file a complaint with relevant institutions after finding similarities between the signatures submitted by several candidates.
Brussels — The negotiating teams of the EP and the EU Council reached an agreement on Tuesday evening over the appointment of the Romanian Laura Codruţa Kövesi at the helm of the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office, shows an EP communiqué. The negotiations over the appointment of the new European prosecutor started in spring. The EP’s negotiating team supported Laura Codruţa Kövesi from the very beginning despite opposition from the EU ministers.
Handball — Romania’s women’s handball team is taking on today, on home ground, the team of neighboring Ukraine in the debut match of Group 7 of the 2020 European Championship preliminaries. Poland and the Faroe Islands are also in the Group. The first two teams in the group will qualify to the final. In the 2018 edition of the championship Romania was ranked 4th in the group, failing to get the bronze medal which went to the Netherlands. In the men’s competition, Romania’s champions Dinamo Bucharest are playing at home against Danish vice-champions GOG Gudme in Group D of the Champions League. In the previous matches, Dinamo defeated, in Bucharest, the Swedish team IFK Kristianstad and drew the match with the Swiss team Kadetten Schaffhausen away from home. (translation by L. Simion)
