March 18, 2023 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 18.03.2023, 19:23
FOOTBALL – Romanian selector Edward Iordanescu has summoned 26 players for the games with Andorra and Belarus, the first for the Romanian national football side in the qualifiers for Euro 2024 hosted by Germany. Romania will be up against Andorra in an away match on March 25th after which it takes on Belarus at home. Romanias eleven has been included in the first group of the qualifiers together with Switzerland, Israel, Kosovo, Belarus and Andorra. The first two squads in the ten preliminary groups will qualify for the final tournament. The last three places will be decided following the Nations League play-offs in March next year.
VISIT – Attracting investments in the Romanian economy through projects in the fields of infrastructure and energy are the main objectives of the visit, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis started in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. The four-day visit takes place at the invitation of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates. Boosting the already-growing economic relations between the two countries and developing joint projects on fighting climate change, in the field of food and cyber-security are high on the agenda. According to the presidential administration in Bucharest, the United Arab Emirates continues to be the first trade partner of Romanias in the Gulf area and Iohannis visit has been the first paid by a Romanian president in the past 20 years.
MINISTRY – The Romanian Foreign Ministry reiterates the firm position of condemning and unrecognizing the illegal annexation by the Russian Federation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol as well as its support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally-recognized borders. Nine years on since its illegal annexation by Russia on March 18th, Romanias Foreign Affairs Ministry says in a press release on Saturday that the annexation is a blatant violation of international law as well as of the multilateral documents signed by Russia, including the UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act. According to the same sources Romania condemns the use of the Crimean territory by Russia during the illegal and unprovoked aggression commenced by Russia on February 24th 2022. Romania also doesnt recognize the illegal annexation by the Russian Federation of the regions in eastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia), which are an inalienable part of Ukraines national territory under the international law.
SPEECH – Maia Sandu, the pro-western president of the ex-soviet Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova, has given assurances the state she leads isnt presently facing the danger of war. In an unexpected speech before the countrys Parliament, Sandu says the Russian Army cannot make it to the Republic of Moldova as long as the neighboring Ukraine is resisting in the war. Sandu has repeated the allegations about the attempts to destabilize the country by Russia and the pro-Russian opposition party Shor. The Shor group has a clear mission from the Kremlin and the Russian Security Service (FSB), namely to bring the war to the Republic of Moldova. Their goal is to destabilize through violence and put an end to the countrys democratically-elected rule. According to President Sandu, specialized institutions have managed to prevent any destabilizing attempts. However, Sandu says, the greatest danger the country is presently facing is corruption. She called on Parliament and government to create an Anti-corruption Tribunal, a specialized court in charge of investigating the big corruption cases including in the countrys legal system and has pledged the process of reforming and cleaning the aforementioned system will be completed in spite of the resistance currently faced. President Sandu has also said that the Republic of Moldova is not alone in facing the aforementioned challenges, but enjoys support from Romania, the United States and the European Union.
TENNIS Players Ana Bogdan, Jaqueline Cristian, Irina Bara, Monica Niculescu and Anca Todoni are part of the Romanian tennis side due to take on Slovenia in the qualifiers for the final tournament of Billie Jean King Cup, the Romanian Tennis Federation has announced on its formal webpage. The Romanian-Slovenian match is due over April 14th and 15th at Sport Park Bonifika, in the Slovenian city of Koper. The winner will qualify for the competitions final tournament. The only direct match between the two sides took place in the year 2000 when Slovenia outperformed Romania 3-0 in Spain in the group one of the competition for the Europe-Africa Zone.
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