Newsflash 10.07.2013
A round-up of Romanian news
România Internațional, 10.07.2013, 11:00
The Romanian President, Traian Basescu, will receive Thursday the French PM Jean-Marc Ayrault who is on a 2-day official visit to Bucharest, the presidential administration announced on Wednesday. The French ambassador to Bucharest Philippe Gustin said the visit confirmed the re-launching of bilateral relations. He showed that the strategic partnership between the 2 states focused on the development of economic relations and underlined that the French businesspeople from Romania, like all the investors of the world, were expecting political stability and predictability. This partnership was signed in 2008 and updated in February 2013 on the occasion of the Romanian PM’s visit to Paris. Special importance will be attached to economic and trade exchanges which, last year, exceeded 6 billion euros. France is Romania’s 3rd trade partner and 4th foreign investor. In the summer of 2010 Romanian — French relations soured following the political decisions of rightist president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to repatriate the ethnic Roma coming from Romania and illegally settled in France.
The Romanian foreign minister, Titus Corlatean, is paying an official visit to South Korea on Thursday and Friday. The visit aims at developing bilateral relations in the political, economic and cultural fields. According to the Romanian Foreign Ministry, the Romanian FM will have talks with South Korean PM Chung Hong-won, with his counterpart Yun Byung-se and with the vice-president of the National Assembly Lee Byung-suk. Titus Corlatean will also meet with South Korean businesspeople whom he will present with opportunities to boost South Korean investments in the Romanian economy. On the occasion of the visit an honorary consulate of Romania will be inaugurated in Daejeon.
Egypt’s state prosecutor on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Madie, and a number of other senior officials, a judicial source announced. They are accused of inciting the violence in Cairo on Monday in which more than 50 people were killed. On the other hand, the Muslim Brothers, supporters of overthrown president Mohammed Morsi, rejected to offer to join the cabinet being set up by interim Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi, who was designated by interim President Adly Mansour. The interim President also designated Mohammed el Baradei, the opposition leader, vice-president in charge of international relations.
