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No. 5/ 4Th Year 1St – 15Th of March 2011 Politics Economics Culture and Education Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ No. 5/ 4th Year 1st – 15th of March 2011 Politics 1. Latvian President Zatlers' visit to Romania will consolidate political and economic ties 2. Operation of evacuation from Libya proves Romanian State's protection for its citizens 3. Romania to contribute 55,000 Euros toward development of European cultural routes 4. Romanian Air Forces take over command of Kabul Airport 5. Immigrants enjoy better laws in Romania than in most countries in Europe 6. Romania, main Francophone country of Central and Eastern Europe 7. The Ambassador of Romania’s visit to Cardiff 8. The visit of the Ambassador of Romania to the UK to Northumbria 9. The Ambassador of Romania visited the University of Manchester Economics 1. Romania provides tremendous investment possibilities 2. Romania has decided to earmark 4 billion Euros for 2011 public investments 3. Romanian companies might join large-scale infrastructure projects of Palestinian National Authority 4. Bucharest hosts business forum on business opportunities in Central and South-Eastern Europe 5. Nine Romanian companies attends Embedded World trade fair 6. Romania, France advocating agricultural policy that preserves farming in all EU 7. Over 2,600 construction authorisations were issued in January – increase by 17% 8. 17 companies submit bids for building Timisoara-Lugoj motorway 9. Romania's car fleet rejuvenated by two years 10. Garanti Bank expects EUR 5 million profits in 2011 in Romania 11. Romania's 2010 IT exports stand at nearly 600 million Euros 12. Electrica has two projects of wind parks worth 238 billion dollar 13. 25th edition of Romania's Tourism Fair to begin at Romexpo, on March 31 14. Pound trades at 4.83 lei Culture and Education 1. The opening of Rita Horowitz water painting exhibition 2. The Day of Marțișor celebrated by the Romanian students at the University of Nottingham 3. Season tickets for George Enescu Festival put for sale on March 15 4. The boxing lesson (Lecţia de box) @ Ciné lumière 5. The Annual meeting of the Romanian health care professionals working in the UK 6. Under the Radar - painting exhibition by Serban Savu 7. Alina Cojocaru in ‘Cinderella’, Royal Opera House 8. Alina Cojocaru in ‘Rhapsody’ mixed bill, Royal Opera House 9. Alexandra Dariescu (piano) at Wigmore Hall 10. Ion Grigorescu @ Tate Modern Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Tel. 020 7937 9666 Fax: 020 7937 8069 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ • Politics Latvian President Zatlers' visit to Romania will consolidate political and economic ties Bucharest, March 3 /Agerpres/ - President Traian Basescu said that the visit to Bucharest of Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers will consolidate the political and economic ties between Romania and Latvia. "This is the first visit of a Latvian president to Romania. It is a visit that honours us and that will certainly consolidate political relations and hopefully the economic ties between the two countries. In our conversations, we approached a wide range of topics, particularly issues of European interest, but also issues that are outside Europe's concerns," President Basescu told a news conference at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest at the end of talks with President Zatlers. He added they discussed the future financial framework of the EU, with mentions of the 2013- 202 Budget and the Common Agricultural Policy and the Cohesion Policy. "We also focused on the energy policy of the European Union and the eastern neighbourhood. Our conclusions were that Romania and Latvia have very close approaches. Romania and Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen Area was also discussed, and I want to thank Mr. President for the conclusions of today's talks as well as for his position so far that supports exactly the Romanian opinion that there can be no additional requirements for accession to the Schengen Area," said President Basescu. In his turn President Zatlers said relations between Latvia and Romania have improved considerably over the past five-six years. "I believe there is still enough room for improving more the relations between the two countries, particularly at an economic level. At the sane time, it was important for us to exchange opinions on the EU's cohesion policy and cultural policy in the next decade. It is very important for us to underscore the importance of the cohesion policies that will matter a lot in the decades to come; these projects have to be implemented over 30, 40 years and there are very important aspects in the consolidation of EU's situation and position," said President Zatlers. He also thanked President Basescu for the invitation to visit Romania, as this is the first visit ever of a Latvian president to Romania. He said his visit is very opportune because this year is 90 years since Romania recognised Latvia and 20 years since the resumption of diplomatic relations between Latvia and Romania. "I was honoured to attend today the official opening of an honorary consulate of Latvia in Bucharest, and I would like to thank you for Romania's support for the opening of this small Latvian embassy in Bucharest," said Presindent Zatlers. Operation of evacuation from Libya proves Romanian State's protection for its citizens Bucharest, March 3 /Agerpres/ - Seven hundred and thirty-five Romanian citizens and other 100 foreign citizens were evacuated from Libya in the last ten days, receiving consular assistance or being transferred by two Romanian military aircrafts, the entire operation proving the Romanian State's capacity of protecting its citizens, Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Baconschi said. Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Tel. 020 7937 9666 Fax: 020 7937 8069 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ "... 10 days of complex efforts during which we focused on this operation for the safe evacuation of 735 Romanian citizens from Libya. ... Besides the compatriots successfully evacuated from Libya, we managed to prove our solidarity with other EU member states and with other people, evacuating 72 member states" citizens, plus seven US citizens, three Canadians, eight Ukrainians, one Russian, as well as the Ambassador of Sierra Leone in Tripoli, together with his family, three Serbians and one Libyan, a child with parents of Libyan citizenship," the Romanian head of diplomacy pointed out in the press conference presenting the balance of the operation. According to him, the costs of the evacuation operation kept within the 900,000 lei budget allocated by the Government for this purpose. When asked if the companies employing the Romanian citizens would support a part of those costs, Minister Baconschi answered that "until the present, the answer was negative." Moreover, the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) plans to modify the legislation so that the Romanian citizens living in countries with political instability potential or with security risk potential should announce their presence in due time at the embassies of Romania, as the work of the staff involved in the operation in Libya was made extremely more difficult because there was not any evidence of the citizens living in this country. "Many other European states do this. The citizens arriving to one country or another, who are residents there or on a labour contract, communicate their coordinates to their country's embassy so that they may be promptly assisted in crisis situations, without their actual finding involving so many efforts," the Minister also said. At the same time, he showed that a "map room" was going to be established at the MAE headquarters. "I shall ask all our missions to send an administrative and political map of the countries they carry out their activity in, so we should have a complete data base on the access ways and all the necessary information in such crisis situations," said the Minister, adding that the Ministry's Policy Planning Department was required to make a projection preparing the evacuation mechanism for other possible anarchy or civil war situations in the countries in the region, too. Some Romanian citizens evacuated from Libya also attended the press conference and gave thanks. Nicolae Gavriliuc, a specialist in refineries maintenance, working for 5 years on an industrial platform in the desert belonging to a Libyan state company, showed that the experience of his repatriation was not "traumatizing" thanks to the support given by his employer and by MAE, but that the experiences of other colleagues of his, as well as the images seen in the Tripoli Airport area were "striking." He said he intended to return to Libya as soon as the situation calmed down, because the salaries in the oil industry there exceeded even the ones in the western European companies. In her turn, Mihaela Craciun, a young translator with a Romanian company in Tripoli, also mentioned she intended to go back to work in the Libyan capital as soon as that was possible. Since February 21, MAE has mobilized a round-the-clock crisis cell in the Ministry, and one in the Romanian Embassy in Tripoli. A permanent consular presence was established at Tripoli Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Tel. 020 7937 9666 Fax: 020 7937 8069 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Airport and at La Valetta Airport and integrated actions were carried out in all embassies in the Mediterranean region: in Alger, Cairo, Tunis and Rome.
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