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COMMEMORATION On Monday, when Romania commemorated 32 years since the miners' raid on Bucharest, over June 13th and 15th, the country's Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca conveyed a message saying that the civil society's marathon-demonstration against neo-communism was stifled by instigating Romanians against Romanians. The Romanian society must never become victim to diversions and false propaganda, the head of the Romanian government says. 32 years ago responding to a call from the then authorities, miners from the Jiu Valley in central-western Romania brutally intervened against the peaceful anti-government protesters in downtown Bucharest. Four people were shot dead and over 1,000 wounded along with a series of abusive arrests. The file on the miners' raid, under which the country's then President Ion Iliescu, former Prime Minister Petre Roman and Virgil Magureanu, the former head of the country's intelligence service, had been sent to court must be resumed from scratch after the indictment was considered null and void.
MEETING Romanian president Klaus Iohannis will be attending a low-scale meeting aimed at preparing the upcoming NATO summit. The meeting is being staged by the Dutch and Danish Prime Ministers and will be attended by the Prime Ministers of Belgium, Latvia, Poland and Portugal as well as by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Participants will be focusing on coordinating the positions and joint messages of the allied countries ahead of the NATO summit in Madrid late this month. Talks are expected to focus on the situation in Ukraine, the consolidation of the deterrence & defence posture on NATO's eastern flank, the alliance's new strategic concept and the accession prospects of Sweden and Finland.
MONKEYPOX Romania announced its first case of monkeypox on Monday, a 26 year old man in Bucharest. Monkeypox cannot be spread easily among humans and needs close body contact. The rash, bodily fluids (such as fluid, pus or blood from skin lesions) and scabs are particularly infectious. The main way in which one can get the disease is through long physical contact with an infected person.
WAR Amnesty International has accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, claiming that hundreds of civilians have been killed in merciless frag bomb attacks against the city of Kharkiv, AFP reports. After thorough investigations, this human rights NGO claims it found evidence that the Russian forces had used widely-banned cluster ammunition. "People have been killed in their homes and in the streets, in playgrounds and in cemeteries, while queueing for humanitarian aid, or shopping for food and medicine," says an Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Advisor. While Russia is not a party to either the Convention on Cluster Munitions or the Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines, international humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate attacks, and the use of weapons that are indiscriminate by nature.
REFUGEES Roughly 7,000 Ukrainian citizens entered Romania through its border checkpoints on Sunday, June 12th, 26% less than in the previous day, the Border Police General Inspectorate has announced. Since the onset of the conflict in Ukraine, roughly 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania.
COVID-19 Romania is no longer providing COVID-19 infection reports on a daily basis, but weekly. According to Health Minister Alexandru Rafila, the reports will be just like in the case of season flu, as the spreading degree of the virus is very low at present and on a downward trend. The number of people in need of hospital treatment is also going down. The health minister said that authorities won't go back to daily monitoring unless the situation worsens. Last week, Romania reported 2,112 new infections with 51 patients in ICUs. 21 related fatalities have also been reported for the period between June 6 and 12.
TENNIS Romanian tennis player Simona Halep on Monday secured a 6-1, 6-4 win against Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine in the first round of the WTA 250 Birmingham tournament. Another Romanian in the competition, sixth-seeded Sorana Cirstea will be playing US challenger Shelby Rogers on Tuesday.
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