October 13, 2015 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 13.10.2015, 12:05
The Republic of Moldova may rely on Romania at any moment and to a great extent, said President Klaus Iohannis, who received on Tuesday the head of the Moldovan Cabinet, Valeriu Streleţ. Iohannis added that Romania was the main promoter of the Republic of Moldova in terms of European affairs. The Moldovan PM thanked Bucharest for its constant and reliable support given to Moldova in various fields. Valeriu Streleţ came to Bucharest to attend the ratification by the Chamber of Deputies of a law regarding the 150 million euro assistance package offered to Moldova last week. The first instalment, amounting to 60 million euros, will be transferred next month. The head of the Moldovan Cabinet also had a meeting with his Romanian counterpart, Victor Ponta.
The Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu and the head of the Lebanons National Assembly Nabih Berri, talked in Bucharest on Tuesday about ways to strengthen the bilateral cooperation, particularly the economic one. According to Aurescu, Lebanon is one of the top Arab investors in Romania and the second-largest market for Romanian exports in the Middle East. On the other hand, Aurescu expressed Bucharests firm support for the stability of Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces, particularly given the complex regional context. The two officials also discussed the prospects of the Syrian crisis and aspects related to Lebanons management of the Syrian refugee issue.
The Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, with 298 people on board, was shot down by a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile, according to the final report of the Dutch investigators, released on Tuesday. The investigation took 15 months to complete and involved experts from several countries. According to the report, Ukraine should not have allowed civilian flights above the conflict zone in the east of the country, where clashes were taking place between governmental forces and the pro-Russian separatists. Before the release of the report, the authorities in Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists accused each other for the tragedy which killed 298 people, and Moscow announced its own report on the events.
