FAC – Romania’s Foreign
\nMinister, Bogdan Aurescu, is today attending the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC)
\nmeeting hosted by Brussels. According to a Foreign Ministry press release,
\ntalks will focus on Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, with Ukraine’s Foreign
\nMinister, Dmytro Kuleba expected to take part in videoconference format. With
\nrespect to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Minister Aurescu will reassert the
\nneed to continue the EU’s multidimensional assistance to Ukraine, in particular
\nwith a view to getting through the cold season safely and providing military
\nassistance to the Ukrainian army via the European Peace Facility. The Romanian
\nofficial will also call for the introduction of new sanctions against Russia
\nand additional support to third countries affected by the fallout from the war.
\nAccording to the Foreign Ministry, European officials will also look at the
\nlatest developments in Iran, Montenegro, Afghanistan and Venezuela, as well as
\nthe launch of the EU mission to Armenia. The EU will act as an observer and
\nwill report on developments alongside the Armenian-Azeri border, with a view to
\nfacilitating the process of normalizing relations between the two states
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CHERNIVTSI – Chernivtsi could be the first region of Ukraine to
\nimplement a program designed to reintegrate internally displaced people, nearly
\na year since the start of the Russian aggression. The top concerns facing war
\nrefugees include access to social services, housing and long-term jobs. To come
\nto their aid, Kyiv has launched this reintegration program, which will first be
\nimplemented in Chernivtsi, where Ukraine’s Minister for the Reintegration of
\ntemporarily occupied territories, Irina Vereshchuk paid a visit at the end of
\nlast week. The Ukrainian official said this would be a complicated process,
\nsince the integration of internally displaced people entails much more than the
\nprovision of social services. Since the start of the war, over 100 thousand
\nUkrainians have moved to Chernivtsi, which is so far the only region of Ukraine
\nthat has not been affected by attacks or shelling. Of these, most were in route
\nto Romania, although part of them chose to stay. Over 30 factories from Eastern
\nUkraine relocated their production here. <\/p>\n
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GEORGE BANU – The reputed
\nRomanian theatre expert, George Banu, passed away at the end of last week, aged
\n79. A graduate of the Theatre and Film Department of the I.L. Caragiale
\nInstitute for Theatre and Cinema arts in Bucharest, George Banu settled in
\nParis in 1973. He is three-time winner of the Award for Best Theatre Book in
\nFrance. He served as director of the Experimental Theatre Academy, taught at Le
\nSorbonne in Paris and at the University of Louvain la Neuve in Belgium. His
\nactivity earned him many other distinctions: Les Palmes Academiques and L’Ordre
\ndes Arts et des Lettres, L’Ordre du Merite National (France), the Award of the
\ncity of San Paolo and the Award of the city of Bologna. He was designated Doctor Honoris Causa by several European
\nuniversities. In 2006, George Banu was awarded the Honorary Prize by the
\nRomanian Department of the International Association of Theatre Critics. George
\nBanu got the award for his exceptional activity in the field of international
\ntheatre criticism and research and for promoting Romanian theatre at European
\ncultural level. <\/p>\n
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AUSTRALIAN OPEN – The Romanian-Swiss
\npair made up of Monica Niculescu and Viktorija Golubic is today playing Storm
\nHunter of Australia and Elise Mertens of Belgium, the competition’s fourth
\nseeds, in the round of 16 of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open. Also
\nin the round of 16, Gabriela Ruse of Romania and Marta Kostiuk of Ukraine will
\nplay the all-Czech pair Miriam Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova. Romania
\nhas no more players left in the singles competition. (VP)<\/p>\n
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