September 7, 2014 UPDATE
A roundup of domestic and international news.
România Internațional, 07.09.2014, 19:39
The NATO summit in Wales confirmed the Alliance’s solidarity and strength, Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Sunday in Bucharest. He pointed our that Romania would be protected in case of any type of war and that there was an action plan in case of air, navy or ground attack. Basescu also said that the allied countries would cover, based on the solidarity principle, the costs of military operations aimed at defending Romania, just as Romania had covered the costs of its military presence in Afghanistan.
Ukrainian and US navies will take part in joint military drills called “Sea Breeze 2014” between September 8 and10 in the north-western part of the Black Sea. The goal of the training is an international operation on establishing and securing a maritime safety zone at crisis situations. Aside from the United States and Ukraine, the exercises will include representatives from Romania, Spain, Canada and Turkey. Georgia, Norway, Sweden and France will take part in the exercise as observers.
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta is opening on Monday in Bucharest a seminar on the impact of regulations on the business environment, staged as part of the economic dimension of the strategic partnership between Romania and the United States. Attending the event are representatives of the Romanian and American public authorities and of the business environment. The talks will focus on identifying the best ways to create a promising and predictable environment for the companies interested in investing in Romania.
Fresh violence was reported in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, in spite of the fact that the rebels had recently signed a cease-fire agreement. Shelling resumed near the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov late on Saturday night, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a phone call that the truce was holding. The accord, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that killed nearly 2.600 people. In a new report on the conflict, Amnesty International accused both the rebels and Ukrainian militia of war crimes.
