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NATO.<\/strong> NATO Secretary General Jens
\nStoltenberg on Monday hailed Romania’s important contribution to the
\nNorth-Atlantic Alliance through its participation in missions in Kosovo and
\nAfghanistan and welcomed the country’s allocation of 2% of its GDP to defence.
\nOn a visit to Romania, Stoltenberg also said NATO did not want a new Cold War
\nor to isolate Russia, but that it is concerned with Russia’s military build-up
\nand its lack of transparency. He met president Klaus Iohannis and prime
\nminister Mihai Tudose and addressed the annual meeting of the NATO
\nParliamentary Assembly. The president said Romania has become a relevant
\ncontributor to security in the region, in the Euro-Atlantic space and at
\ninternational level and that it would continue to be a responsible NATO member.
\nThe prime minister hailed the importance of Romania’s hosting the meeting of
\nthe NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
\nStoltenberg and Iohannis also paid a visit to the multinational brigade
\nin Craiova, in the south. The unit, which numbers troops from Romania and
\nPoland, supports the coordination of NATO training and exercises in the region. Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
\nthe Netherlands, Portugal and Spain also contribute staff to the brigade’s
\ngeneral headquarters. <\/p>\n

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Exercise.<\/strong> A multinational and
\ninter-institutional military exercise called CETATEA 2017 is under way from Monday
\nuntil October 18. Planned by the Romanian Army General Staff and coordinated by
\nthe Army’s IT&C Department, the exercise is aimed at testing, developing,
\nassessing and confirming the interoperability of command and control,
\ncommunications, computers, information, surveillance and research systems.
\nAlongside IT&C bodies from the Romanian army, detachments from other NATO
\nmember countries, namely Bulgaria, Italy and Poland, are also participating in
\nthe exercise, as well as representatives from Hungary and Greece as observers,
\nrepresentatives from the Republic of Moldova and defence, public order and
\nnational security bodies. <\/p>\n

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Ukraine
\neducation law.<\/strong> The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly is to hold an
\nurgent debate on Ukraine’s controversial education law as it gathers for its
\nautumn session on Thursday in Strasbourg. The debate was proposed by the Romanian delegation after Ukraine passed
\na new education law that restricts the rights of national minorities, including
\nthe Romanian minority, to study in their mother tongue. Senator Titus
\nCorlatean, who heads the Romanian delegation, said he was hoping for a fair
\ndebate that would persuade the Ukrainian authorities to change the law. Under
\nthis piece of legislation, ethnic minority children can only study in their
\nmother tongue in nursery and primary school. Almost half a million ethnic
\nRomanians live in the neighbouring Ukraine, mostly in the eastern Romanian
\nterritories annexed by the former Soviet Union in 1940 through an ultimatum and
\ninherited by Ukraine in 1991 as a successor state. <\/p>\n

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Plagiarism. <\/strong>The Save Romania Union and the People’s
\nMovement Party in opposition demand the resignation of the healthcare minister
\nFlorian Bodog after accusations that he largely plagiarised his doctoral
\nthesis. They also say that the underachievement and chaos existing in the
\nmedical system during his tenure provide even more reasons for him to resign.
\nBodog rejects the plagiarism claim and says he is the author of the passages in
\nquestion. Earlier, the National Liberal Party, the People’s Movement Party and
\nthe Save Romania Union filed a simple no-confidence motion against Bodog asking
\nhim to resign. The motion will be debated on Tuesday and go to vote on
\nWednesday. <\/p>\n

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Holocaust remembrance.<\/strong> On
\nNational Holocaust Remembrance Day, the foreign ministry in Bucharest has
\nemphasised the efforts made in recent years in taking responsibility for the
\npast and condemning Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. In a press release
\npublished on Monday, the ministry pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust
\naround the world and expresses solidarity with the survivors of the tragic WWII
\nevents. The Romanian foreign ministry recalls that between March 2016 and March
\n2017, Romania held the presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance
\nAlliance, which adopted a working definition of anti-Semitism during a meeting
\nin Bucharest. President Klaus Iohannis said in a message that honouring the
\nvictims of the Holocaust proves that Romania has accepted its past and has
\npositioned itself on the side of democratic values. Various events were held
\nacross the country on National Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorated
\nthe beginning, on the 9th of October 1941, of the deportation to
\nTransnistria of large numbers of Romanian Jews by the regime of the day, which
\nwas an ally of Nazi Germany. <\/p>\n

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Tennis.<\/strong>
\nRomania’s Simona Halep became the new world no. 1 in women’s tennis on
\nMonday. The 26-year-old becomes the first Romanian player to achieve this
\nhistoric milestone since the computer rankings were introduced in 1975, being
\nthe 25th womanto
\nhold the no. 1 ranking. Her rise to the first sport brings to an end
\nthe reign of Spain’s Garbi\u00f1e Muguruza <\/strong>in the top position. Halep made it
\ninto Top 10 for the first time on January 27, 2014, and has been there
\never since. Sorana Cirstea is the second Romanian player in the WTA ranking, at
\nno. 37. Irina Begu retains her 57th position, while Monica Niculescu
\ndropped to no. 61. <\/p>\n

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Transmitter revision.<\/strong> The short-wave
\ntransmitters in Tiganesti, near Bucharest, relaying Radio Romania
\nInternational’s broadcasts, are to go into planned revision on Tuesday, October
\n10, between 08.00 and 16.00 local time (that’s between 05.00 and 13.00 GMT).
\n<\/strong>Between these hours, you can listen to our broadcasts relayed by
\nthe Galbeni transmitters on short-wave, online at www.rri.ro<\/a>, or on mobile apps that can be
\ndownloaded from Google Play and App Store, as well as on TuneIn and on your
\nfixed and mobile phones in some states.<\/p>\n

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