Declaration. Romanian Parliament adopted a declaration condemning
\nRussia’s aggression in Ukraine, calling for the withdrawal of all Russian
\ntroops and expressing full support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial
\nintegrity and its legitimate ambitions to join NATO and the European Union. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Romania for the support given to his
\ncountry and for significant contribution to its defence. In a message posted on
\nsocial media, he thanked the president of Romania Klaus Iohannis for supporting
\nUkraine’s EU accession. In another move, the European Commissioner for Home
\nAffairs Ylva Johansson thanked the Romanian authorities and citizens for their
\nsupport of the Ukrainian refugees coming into Romania. She visited the Siret
\nrefugee camp on Romania’s northern border with Ukraine before talks with
\nRomanian president Klaus Iohannis and prime minister Nicolae Ciuc\u0103 in Bucharest, as well as interior
\nminister Lucian Bode. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian nationals have crossed
\ninto neighbouring Romania in recent days. Romanians have mobilised to help the
\npeople in Ukraine forced to abandon their homes. Fund raising events are held across
\nthe country, with volunteers making sure aid reaches the border areas. The
\nNational Defence Ministry has prepared all its 11 military hospitals to receive
\ntroops injured in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
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Ukraine. Talks between Russian and Ukrainian
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Bill. The Romanian Senate
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COVID-19. Romania on Monday reported more than 4,700 new Covid
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\ndelegations held in Belarus have ended, with both sides reportedly returning to
\ntheir capital cities for further consultations before a new round of talks
\ncould take place in the next few days, news agencies are reporting. Ukraine
\ncalled for the withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory, while Russian
\nleader Vladimir Putin wants recognition of Moscow’s control of Crimea and the demilitarisation
\nof Kyiv. In another move, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky signed his
\ncountry’s formal application to join the European Union. Also on Monday, during
\na phone conversation with Vladimir Putin, French president Emmanuel Macron
\nreiterated the calls of the international community for Russia to halt its
\noffensive in Ukraine. Russia in the meantime is becoming increasingly isolated politically
\nand economically, as it becomes the target of further financial sanctions,
\nincluding being cut off the SWIFT financial network and a freeze on the assets
\nof its Central Bank. Switzerland also set aside its neutrality to impose
\nsanctions on Russia. On the ground, the Russian forces continue to meet stiff
\nresistance in the capital Kyiv and other cities. <\/span><\/p>\n
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\npassed a bill on the dismantling of a special department to investigate crimes
\nin the judiciary. Initiated by the justice ministry and adopted last week by
\nthe Chamber of Deputies, the bill provides for the dismantling of the
\ndepartment, with its responsibilities to be taken over by regular prosecutor’s
\noffices and its cases to be assigned to special prosecutors appointed by the
\nprosecutor general of the prosecutor’s office of the High Court of Cassation
\nand Justice at the proposal of the Superior Council of Magistracy for a period
\nof 4 years. The special department to investigate magistrates and prosecutors
\nwas created in 2018 but the move was criticised by the European Commission
\nwhich feared it was only set up to transfer sensitive cases away from the
\nNational Anticorruption Directorate. <\/p>\n
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\ninfections and 61 related deaths, including four from an earlier date. The
\nlargest number of cases since the start of the pandemic, 40,018 was reported on
\nFebruary 1. In the capital Bucharest, the infection rate is 22 cases per one thousand
\ninhabitants. Fewer than 1,000 patients are in intensive care. Public health
\nexperts insist that vaccination remains the most efficient way to prevent death
\nand severe illness. (CM)<\/p>\n
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