{"id":106324,"date":"2022-11-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/november-29-2022-update-106324.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:12:04","slug":"november-29-2022-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/november-29-2022-update-id106324.html","title":{"rendered":"November 29, 2022 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>NATO SUMMIT&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211; <span style=font-size: 1em;>Russia is solely responsible for the war in&#13;<br \/>\nUkraine, which represents a blatant violation of international law and the UN&#13;<br \/>\nCharter, NATO Foreign Ministers said in Bucharest in a joint statement signed&#13;<br \/>\nat the end of the first day of the NATO Foreign Affairs summit. NATO officials&#13;<br \/>\nsay the Russian aggression has disrupted global food supply chains and endangered&#13;<br \/>\nthe most vulnerable countries and nations. Additionally, NATO Foreign Ministers&#13;<br \/>\nalso spoke of a Russian crusade against Ukraine, including forced&#13;<br \/>\ndisplacement, torture and barbaric behavior towards women and children. NATO&#13;<br \/>\nofficials have condemned all parties, including Belarus, that actively the&#13;<br \/>\ncampaign against Ukraine.  <\/span>NATO is not part of the Ukrainian conflict, but we pledge to support Ukraine&#13;<br \/>\nfor as long as it is necessary, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on&#13;<br \/>\nTuesday in Bucharest in the opening of the Foreign Affairs NATO Summit in&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest. NATO members must support Ukraine to help this country remain a&#13;<br \/>\nsovereign state, Jens Stoltenberg argued, adding that NATO will remain vigilant&#13;<br \/>\nand defend every inch of its territory. The NATO official also said NATO&#13;<br \/>\nmembers will supplement the assistance package for Ukraine, including&#13;<br \/>\nnon-lethal support made up of fuel and generators that will help Ukrainians&#13;<br \/>\ncope with the aftermath of Russian missiles hitting key Ukrainian energy&#13;<br \/>\ninfrastructure. Attending the summit, president Klaus Iohannis pointed out that&#13;<br \/>\nthe Black Sea is a strategic objective for Euro-Atlantic security, and Member&#13;<br \/>\nStates must carefully monitor developments in this region. The Romanian&#13;<br \/>\npresident also said Romania remains a staunch supporter of open-doors policy&#13;<br \/>\nand hopes that Finland and Sweden would quickly join the Alliance. This is the&#13;<br \/>\nfirst such event Romania is hosting since it joined NATO and the first of its&#13;<br \/>\nkind held in a country on the Alliance&#8217;s eastern flank since the start of the&#13;<br \/>\nwar in Ukraine. The summit comprises 3 working sessions, 2 of which will be&#13;<br \/>\nattended by the Allies together with Sweden and Finland. Taking part in the&#13;<br \/>\nthird session will also be the foreign ministers of Bosnia &#8211; Herzegovina,&#13;<br \/>\nGeorgia and the Republic of Moldova. The war in Ukraine and the provision of&#13;<br \/>\nlong-term political and practical support from the Allies will be the main&#13;<br \/>\ntopic of discussion. NATO&#8217;s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg arrived in&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest on Monday, and had meetings with president Klaus Iohannis, Prime&#13;<br \/>\nMinister Nicolae Ciuc\u0103 and Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>PARTNERSHIP&#13;<br \/>\nAhead of US secretary of state Antony Blinken&#8217;s visit to Bucharest to take part&#13;<br \/>\nin the NATO summit, the US Department of State hailed the celebration of 25&#13;<br \/>\nyears since the Strategic Partnership with Romania was signed. A US Department&#13;<br \/>\nof State news release mentions Bucharest&#8217;s contribution to NATO and&#13;<br \/>\nmultinational operations, the fact that the country hosts several NATO and&#13;<br \/>\nAmerican military structures, including the missile defense system in Deveselu.&#13;<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, during his visit in Bucharest, Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#13;<br \/>\nmet Romania&#8217;s Foreign Minister, Bogdan Aurescu. Talks focused on the&#13;<br \/>\ncelebration of 25 years since the signing of the partnership, based on the&#13;<br \/>\njoint commitment to promoting and consolidating trans-Atlantic ties and&#13;<br \/>\ndemocratic resilience. Both parties pledged to further develop the partnership&#13;<br \/>\nat all levels. The Romanian Foreign Minister pointed out that Romania&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nStrategic Partnership with the United States represents a key pillar of&#13;<br \/>\nRomania&#8217;s foreign policy, also highlighting its importance in ensuring the&#13;<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s security, all the more so amidst security challenges in the Black Sea&#13;<br \/>\nregion. Moreover, Minister Aurescu reiterated the importance of including&#13;<br \/>\nRomania in the Visa Waiver program. Talks also tackled an increase in US&#13;<br \/>\nmilitary presence in Romania, consolidating NATO&#8217;s posture in the Black Sea&#13;<br \/>\nregion, Romania&#8217;s bid to join OECD and furthering joint projects in the field&#13;<br \/>\nof civilian nuclear power. Also on Tuesday, Antony Blinken met with president&#13;<br \/>\nKlaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuc\u0103. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>REFUGEES &#8211; The Border&#13;<br \/>\nPolice Inspectorate announced on Tuesday that some 63 thousand people entered&#13;<br \/>\nRomania on Monday, of whom over 7,000 were Ukrainian nationals, accounting for&#13;<br \/>\na 9% drop compared to the previous day. According to a press release published&#13;<br \/>\non Tuesday, close to 3 million Ukrainian refugees have entered Romania starting&#13;<br \/>\nFebruary 10, most of whom were en route to countries in Western Europe. Over 80&#13;<br \/>\nthousand Ukrainians have chosen to stay. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NATIONAL DAY &#8211; The Romanian Cultural&#13;<br \/>\nInstitute organizes 50 events until December 10, to celebrate the National Day&#13;<br \/>\nof Romania in 31 cities abroad. According to the president of the Institute,&#13;<br \/>\nLiviu Jicman, the events held in emblematic locations in the respective&#13;<br \/>\ncountries place the works of Romanian artists among the most important cultural&#13;<br \/>\nlandmarks of today and contribute to raising awareness among foreign cultural&#13;<br \/>\nand arts communities and the general public with respect to the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nculture. On December 1, the National Day of Romania, a parade&#13;<br \/>\nwill be organized in Bucharest and another one in Alba Iulia. On Monday, the&#13;<br \/>\nParliament celebrated 104 years since the Great Union in a special meeting. 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