July 2, 2016
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Newsroom, 02.07.2016, 12:00
Romania appreciates the excellent friendship relation and the Strategic Partnership with the US, based on such values as freedom, democracy, individual rights and the rule of law — said Friday the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on the occasion of the US Independence Day marked in advance at the US embassy in Bucharest. President Iohannis recalled that Romania expected the Strategic Partnership between the two countries to generate economic opportunities and prosperity for the citizens of the two countries. In turn, the American ambassador Hans Klemm talked about bilateral cooperation both in the field of world security and in fighting corruption and mentioned the two countries’ cooperation in the fields of energy security and political coordination and also at consular level.
The armament department with the Romanian Defense Ministry has selected the companies that will participate in a tender for the modernization of the two Romanian frigates “King Ferdinand” and “Queen Marie”, three companies from Canada, Italy and France and a Turkish-Romanian consortium will submit their offers by July 18. The ships will be equipped with antiaircraft missile systems and anti-ship missile fighting systems as well as with state-of-the-art electronic equipment as part of the program “The multifunctional frigate- modernization stage II”.
Detainees in the Romanian prisons will have better conditions. The Justice Ministry announced this weekend that it adopted together with the National Administration of Penitentiaries a plan of measures regarding access to jobs and social reinsertion of people deprived of freedom. Also the plan stipulates additional medical staff, the sanitization of spaces and dental care services for detainees. The European Court of Human Rights has obliged Romania on several occasions to pay damages to some convicts for the improper conditions they had to face in prisons.
Last night’s matches of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament were disturbed by rain. The best Romanian tennis player, Simona Halep (5 WTA) will take on this afternoon the Dutch Kiki Bertens (28 WTA) in the 3rd round, after yesterday’s match was postponed. The match pitting the Romanian Monica Niculescu and the Swiss Timea Bacsinsky, in the 2nd round, was stopped after one hour and 38 minutes at the score 6-4, 2-6, 1-0 for Monica. Also on Friday the pair made up of Romanian Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna qualified for the 2nd round of the men’s doubles, defeating 7-5, 7-6 the Croat pair Marin Draganja/Nikola Mektic.
20 foreign citizens were killed in a hostage-taking situation in a restaurant in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, frequented by diplomats and expats — a spokesperson for the Bangladeshi army announced on Saturday. Most of the people killed are Italian and Japanese. The army was involved for 12 hours in the hostage-rescue operations. They said the 6 terrorists were killed. The jihadist group the Islamic State has claimed the hostage-taking situation.
(news translated by Lacramioara Simion)
