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ROMANIAN ARMY<\/strong>– Romania’s Higher Defense Council will convene in Bucharest
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NATIONAL ANTHEM DAY<\/strong>– Garrisons across the country and theatres of operations
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ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT<\/strong> – The permanent bureau of the Romanian Chamber
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INCIDENT<\/strong>– Romania’s decision to deny access to its airspace for a
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NORTH KOREA<\/strong>– The Romanian Foreign Ministry has firmly
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PASSEX<\/strong>– The Ukrainian Naval Forces are these days taking
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\n<\/strong>– Prime Minister Mihai Tudose has decided to grant the Romanian Minister for
\nRomanians Abroad more prerogatives to act so that no Romanian citizen abroad is
\ndiscriminated against. Governmental sources have stated for Radio Romania that
\nthe Prime Minister will meet with the Spanish Ambassador to Bucharest Ramiro
\nFernandez Bachiller and the Romanian Minister Adreea Pastarnac for talks on
\nthis matter. On Friday, the Association of Romanians in Europe called on the
\nPrime Minister to take urgent measures to protect the Romanians who are working
\nabroad and are abused. This week alone, authorities in Spain and Italy have
\ndiscovered thousands of Romanians exploited by employers in those countries.<\/p>\n
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\non Tuesday to discuss the plan for equipping the Romanian army in the 2017 -
\n2026 period. The plan was built taking into account the commitment that all
\npolitical parties made in 2015 to allocate 2% of the GDP to defense, for a
\nperiod of ten years, starting this year. We recall that the latest meeting of
\nthe Defense Council was held on July 4th, when the Plan was removed from the
\nagenda of talks, because of a lack of political consensus on the matter.<\/p>\n
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\nabroad celebrated on Saturday Romania’s National Anthem Day. In a message
\nconveyed on this occasion, Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis says that the
\nnational anthem, titled ‘Awaken, thee, Romanian!’ symbolizes the efforts
\nmade by Romanians to build a strong and prosperous country. The anthem became
\nofficial in 1990, but it was sung for the first time during the revolution of
\n1848 and then in crucial moments in Romania’s history, during the first and the
\nsecond world wars, the War of Independence and the Great Union of 1918. The
\nvalue of this anthem is embedded in the Constitution of Romania, alongside the
\nnational flag, emblem and seal, Klaus Iohannis has also said. He has called on
\nall Romanians to honor this national symbol and to sing it with pride, as a
\ngesture of solidarity and a means of affirming their national identity, unity
\nand patriotism. Romanian embassies, consulates and cultural institutes abroad
\nalso held events occasioned by National Anthem Day, alongside other events
\naimed at promoting Romanian traditions and culture.<\/p>\n
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\nof Deputies will convene next week to discuss the request for an extraordinary
\nparliamentary session on August 2-4. Recently, the Social Democrat Prime
\nMinister Mihai Tudose has stated that a special parliamentary session is needed
\nto endorse the passing of ELCEN, a producer of electricity, under the
\nsubordination of the Bucharest municipality. The leader of the opposition
\nNational Liberal Party Ludovic Orban has stated that, if the meeting is held,
\nhe will also ask for the hearing of Finance Minister Ionut Misa on the budget
\nimplementation in the first six months of the
\nyear, which, according to the liberals, has been catastrophic.<\/p>\n
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\nplane which had the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin on board was a
\nprovocation, which put passengers in danger and which will seriously affect
\nbilateral relations, warns the Russian Foreign Ministry, which has presented a
\nprotest note and has called for explanations. The Romanian National Defense
\nMinister Adrian Tutuianu has termed as ‘inappropriate’ the Russian official’s
\nreaction. We recall that on Friday, the regular flight Moscow – Chisinau was
\ndenied access to Romania’s air space as on board the plane there was a person
\non the list of people subject to EU sanctions. The plane eventually landed in
\nthe capital of Belarus, Minsk. Dmitri Rogozin was supposed to meet on Friday
\nwith the president of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon and with the leader of
\nthe separatist regime in Transdniestr, Vadim Krasnoselski.<\/p>\n
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\ncondemned the latest ballistic test conducted by North Korea. In a communiqu\u00e9
\nissued on Saturday, the Romanian diplomacy describes the action as a fresh
\nescalation of tension in the Korean Peninsula and a major threat to global
\npeace. The Romanian Foreign Ministry calls again on the Pyongyang regime to observe
\nthe international regulations in force and to take concrete measures to
\ndenuclearize the Korean Peninsula, completely and irreversibly. Previously, the
\nEU had too condemned the latest missile test conducted by North Korea,
\ndescribing it as a threat to world peace and security. The ballistic missile
\nlaunched by North Korea flew 45 minutes and landed in the Japanese waters, 200
\nmiles from the country’s coast line.<\/p>\n
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\npart in PASSEX drills in the Black Sea, alongside ships from NATO member
\ncountries: Great Britain, Turkey and Romania. The drills are carried out by the
\nUkrainian frigate ‘Hatman Sahaidacini’, the British destroyer ‘Duncan’, the
\nTurkish frigate ‘Yildirim’ and the Romanian frigate ‘Regele Ferdinand’ (King
\nFerdinand). These drills are aimed at improving the participants’
\ninteroperability. Ukraine and NATO set up a partnership in 1991, shortly after
\nKiev won its independence from the former Soviet Union. Ukraine cooperates
\nclosely with the Alliance and plays and active part in NATO’s Partnership for
\nPeace program.<\/p>\n
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