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Embassy. Romania’s embassy in
\nKyiv will reopen soon, Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu has announced. Activity
\nwill be resumed after the technical and security preparations have been
\ncompleted. According to a press release, the Speaker of the Romanian Chamber of
\nDeputies, Marcel Ciolacu, will travel to Kyiv on April 27 and will visit the
\nareas affected by war. Senate Speaker Florin Citu will also travel to Kyiv, at
\nan unspecified date, to visit the war-torn areas and discuss with Ukrainian
\nofficials the country’s post-conflict reconstruction plans. In another move,
\nRomanian President Klaus Iohannis had a phone conversation with his Bulgarian
\ncounterpart, Rumen Radev, about the worrying situation in Ukraine and the Black
\nSea. Romania and Bulgaria will coordinate their efforts to provide Ukraine and
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Consultation. The Western countries will continue to support Ukraine with money and
\nweapons, NATO, EU and G7 leaders said on Tuesday during a video-conference held
\nat the initiative of US president Joe Biden. The world leaders condemned the
\ncrimes committed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian cities and agreed to
\nimpose new sanctions on Russia. President Klaus Iohannis stressed at the
\nmeeting the importance of EU and NATO unity and firmly condemned the crimes
\nagainst civilians committed by the Russian troops. He once again emphasized the need to create
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Ukraine. Currently,
\nthe hardest fighting in Ukraine is reported
\nin the east, in the so-called battle for the Donbas. In the port city of
\nMariupol in the southeast, which has been almost completely destroyed, the
\nsituation remains extremely serious. Here, the soldiers besieged in the
\nAzovstal factory are making desperate calls to be rescued and taken to the
\nterritory of a third country. The conquest of Mariupol is important for Moscow,
\nas it provides the link between the annexed Crimea and the separatist regions in
\nDonbas. Ukraine has reached an agreement with Russia on the creation of a
\nhumanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the city, the first in five
\ndays. Children, women and the elderly could be evacuated through the
\nhumanitarian corridor, and the established route is the city of Zaporozhye. UN
\nSecretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced Russia’s offensive in eastern
\nUkraine and called on the parties to end fighting for a four-day humanitarian
\nbreak on Orthodox Easter. On Wednesday, the West sent a message of support for
\nUkraine during a visit to Kyiv by European Council President Charles Michel. History
\nwill not forget war crimes in Ukraine, he said. More than five million
\nUkrainians have fled the country since the start of the Russian, according to
\nnew figures released by the United Nations on Wednesday. In another move, also on
\nWednesday, the Russian and Belarusian players, including Daniil Medvedev, were
\nbanned from the 2022 edition of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, in response to
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Refugees. Over 750,000 people
\nentered Romania since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Romanian Border
\nPolice announced on Wednesday. On Tuesday, in 24 hours, some 88,586 people
\nentered the country, of whom 7,384 Ukrainian citizens, by 11% more than on the
\nprevious day. The number of staff at the Romanian border checkpoints has been
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\nVeterans Day. The Romanian Ministry of Defense is organizing in Bucharest and in all the major garrisons in the country events dedicated to the War Veterans Day, marked on April 29. The representative orchestra of the Ministry of National Defense and the Tronos choir of the Romanian Patriarchy have prepared dedicated performances in Cluj-Napoca (northwest) and in the capital. The campaign titled Thanks to War Veterans will culminate on April 29 with military wreath-laying ceremonies and other events, held both in the country and abroad, to pay homage to Romanian soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the second world conflagration.<\/p>\n
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Government. The Romanian
\nGovernment is to approve, on Thursday, the establishment of a state aid scheme
\nto support the activity of breeders in the cattle, pig and poultry sectors, in
\nthe context of the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The
\ndraft emergency ordinance regulates the species, the beneficiaries, the
\neligibility criteria, the supporting documents, the duration of the scheme and
\nthe amount of state aid, as well as the rules of implementation. Among other
\nthings, the Executive will make amendments to the law on preventing and
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Homage. Romanian MPs on Wednesday
\na held a minute’s silence in memory of pianist Radu Lupu, one of the most
\nimportant personalities of Romanian culture, who died on Sunday in Switzerland,
\naged 76. Radu Lupu held concerts on the most prestigious stages of the world,
\naccompanied by great orchestras, won a Grammy in 1995 for an album of two
\nSchubert piano sonatas and an Edison Award a year later for a disc of three
\nmajor piano works by Schumann. The Romanian Culture Ministry also expressed sorrow
\nover the passing of the great Romanian pianist. (MI)<\/p>\n
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