September 27, 2015 UPDATE

september 27, 2015 update A roundup of domestic and international news ...

On Sunday, the interim president of the Social Democratic Party, the main partner in the ruling coalition in Romania, announced he would run for party president at the party congress on October 11th. The seat of president remained vacant after Prime Minister Victor Ponta stepped down, as he was prosecuted for corruption. However, he refused to leave the office of PM, so on Tuesday, the liberal opposition will file a non-confidence motion, saying that the premier's legal problems are seriously affecting Romania's credibility. In another development, the appeal in the 'Referendum' case is to be tried  by the Court of Cassation and Justice on Monday. In this case, the main candidate for president of the Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, got a suspended sentence of one year in prison. He was charged with rigging the referendum organized in 2012 on the impeachment of the then president, Traian Basescu.


International peace and security, which are some of the UN's major objectives, cannot be fully promoted without focusing on development, said Romania's president Klaus Iohannis at the UN General Assembly on Sunday. He attended the UN summit which adopted the document titled 'Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'. The Romanian head of state stressed that the causes of the current conflicts must be addressed, such as poverty, the lack of any hope, despair and social exclusion. He recalled the hundreds of thousands of people who fled their war-ravaged countries in search for a better life in Europe, sometimes using methods that put their lives at risk. This ever growing inflow of migrants from the Middle East and Africa has forced the European countries to make huge efforts to avoid a humanitarian disaster, the Romanian president  said. In his opinion, the phenomenon triggered a large-scale crisis, both humanitarian and financial.  Unless adequate solutions are found to this crisis, each migration wave will exceed the previous one, the Romanian president also said.  Iohannis announced that Romania would revise its National Strategy for Sustainable Development, which will be based  on supporting the inclusion of the disabled, of young people and women in development policies. Klaus Iohannis, whose visit to the US ends on September 29th, will hold a meeting with the US vice-president Joe Biden, with whom he will discuss the refugee crisis in Europe and the fight against terrorism.


France has carried out air strikes on Syria, on the basis of intelligence gathered during surveillance missions over the past two weeks, the French Presidency announced on Sunday. The operation was conducted in cooperation with the partners in the region and confirms the determination to fight against the Islamic State terrorist organization. In another move, in Baghdad, the Iraqi government has announced it will boost its cooperation with Russia, Syria and Iran in the fight against the Islamic State. The announcement comes at a time when Russia is consolidating its military presence in Syria, by deploying fresh troops and delivering arms and ammunition to Bashar al Assad's regime.


On Monday and Tuesday, Prince Radu will pay a formal visit to the Republic of Moldova, the former Soviet state with a predominantly Romanian-speaking population, during which he will also go to the town of Comrat, the administrative centre of the Autonomous Region of Gagauzia. It's for the first time that a member of the Romanian Royal Family visits Gagauzia. Prince Radu will meet with the Moldovan Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu and also with the Mayor of Chisinau, Dorin Chirtoaca. He will receive the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Moldovan Academy of Science and will make a book donation to the university.


Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu, ranked 49th in the WTA classification, has qualified for the second round of the Wuhan tournament in China, with over 2.2 million dollars in prize money, after defeating the Chinese Jangzhou Liu. Niculescu's next opponent will be the Spanish Carla Suarez Navarro, number 10 in the WTA rankings, who qualified straight to the second round. Another four Romanian players will compete in the Wuhan tournament: first-seed Simona Halep, Irina Begu, Alexandra Dulgheru and Patricia Tig. On Sunday, Irina Begu won the WTA Seul tournament, after a match  against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus. Thanks to this victory, as of Monday, Irina Begu is ranked 26th in the WTA classification.



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