September 18, 2023

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Newsroom, 18.09.2023, 13:55

VISIT Over
September 18 and 22, President Klaus Iohannis will be heading Romania’s
delegation to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly due in New
York, the USA. ‘Rebuilding Trust and Reigniting Global Solidarity: Accelerating
action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace,
prosperity, progress and sustainability for all is the main theme of the
session. On Wednesday, Iohannis is expected to present Bucharest’s assessments
of the topical issues at the global level and will underline the top priorities
of Romania’s foreign policy and the country’s contributions to the objectives
on UN agenda. During his interventions and the interactions with his
counterparts from the other UN member countries, Iohannis is expected to
reiterate Romania’s staunch support for the effective multilateralism, the
observance of the international law and order based on rules, with the UN in a
central position. He will be presenting Romania’s assessment regarding the
multiple crises currently confronting the international community. The Romanian
president is also expected to attend the summit on sustainable development and
the debates staged by the University of Columbia in New York under the title ‘World
Leaders Forum’ on Romania’s Prospects over the War in Ukraine and its impact
over security at the Black Sea.

MOTION MPs in
Bucharest are today holding debates over the simple motion initiated by the USR
and the Force of Right from the centre-to-right opposition against the
Social-Democratic Minister of Health Alexandru Rafila. This has been the first
move of this kind in the present Parliament season. The initiators are blaming
Rafila for the way he managed the health reforms and investment stipulated in
the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience. According to them the minister is
responsible, among other things, for delaying the norms of applying the
National Plan of Combating Cancer. Rafila has rejected the allegations and has
deemed the opposition’s move as demagogical. The motion will be voted upon on
Wednesday.

COURT Russia and
Ukraine will today appear before the International Court of Justice in a file
initiated by Ukraine upon the Russian invasion of that country last year. Kyiv
is accusing Moscow of having distorted the genocide accusations in order to justify
the military aggression. Russia had initially pretended that its action in
Ukraine was justified as it was meant to prevent a genocide. During the initial
hearing last year, Kyiv said that the danger of genocide in eastern Ukraine did
not exist and the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide signed by the two countries does not allow for an invasion to
prevent it. Although the Court’s ruling are compulsory, the institution does
not have the direct means to implement them.

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