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NEWS SUMMARY
POLITICS, ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL NEWS
- Delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania on a Visit to Isreal
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- His Beatitude Teoctist, the Patriarch of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Church, concluded Visit to the Vatican
CALENDAR
ANNIVERSAIRES AND COMMEMORATIONS
POLITICS, ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL NEWS
Delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania on a Visit to Isreal
Secretary of State with the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mihnea Motoc left for Israel to have talks with the aim of developing relations of special partnership between Romania and Israel.
Issues of cooperation between the two countries as part of international organizations are tackled as well as regional work-together for the improvement of the climate of security and conditions for the resumption of the process of peace, informs ROMANIAN RADIO BROADCASTING CORPORATION in the news casts of RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI, the main news and current affairs channel of our radio corporation.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
His Beatitude Teoctist, the Patriarch of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Church, concluded Visit to the Vatican
His Beatitude Teoctist concluded visit to the Vatican. After the mass at Saint Peters' Cathedral Teoctist delivered his sermon devoted to the difficulties of the ecumenical dialog at present. Teoctist insisted on the necessity of having a more profound wish of the churches of Europe for unity in the conditions in which international organizations are not concerned with the unity and cooperation of the Church.
In his turn Pope John Paul II had already delivered numerous sermons on the fact that the Christian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches are living in deep harmony of the communion of spirit while the wish to unite the two churches is acquiring scope, reports ROMANIAN RADIO BROADCASTING CORPORATION.
CALENDAR
- Standing Bureaus of the Romanian Parliament ( the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies ) are meeting today to work out the strategy of debating, within the two Chambers, the draft budget for 2003.
- Prime Minister Adrian Nastase is attending the opening of the lectures and seminars of the GHEORGHE SINCAI Social Democratic Political University. The official opening takes place today at the Headquarters of the University, 11 Avram Iancu.
- Weekly press conference at the Ministry of European Integration of Romania with Cabinet Minister Hildegard Puwak in the chair.
- Romanian Minister of Interior Ioan Rus is attending the meeting of the Ministers of Interior and Justice of the European Union member countries and of the applicants.
- Press Conference of the Small and Middle Sized Companies.
- CDM&JI as well as the Embassy of Canada to Romania are sponsoring the seminar of joint implementation of the Kyoto Accord, here in Romania at Hotel Continental of Bucharest.
- Ministry of Waters and Environmental protection invite all those interested to attend the meeting with the representatives of the civil society.
- Romanian visit of representatives of the the Higher Royal Defense Institute of Belgium.
- His Beatitude Teoctist, Patriarch of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Church, concludes visit to Italy by a stopover in Milan for talks with the Archbishop of Milan Cardinal Tetamanzi and with members of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Community.
ANNIVERSARIES AND COMMEMORATIONS
- Today, according to the Christian Romanian Orthodox Church Calendar Saint Parascheva is being commemorated and celebrated. Since 1641 the remains of the Saint are at Iasi in the Metropolitan Cathedral exhibited under glass in a silver coffin.
- Saint Parascheni, as the Greek Christian Orthodox believers call her, is Saint Parascheva, the Patron of Moldova.
- 1465 - The first documents mentioning the town of Bucharest as Princely residence of Radu cel Frumos, Radu the Beautiful, ruler and Prince of Wallachia, Tara Romaneasca.
- 1918 - Creation of the Romanian Council of Bucovina under the leadership of Iancu Flondor; they militated for the union of Bucovina with Romania. ( Bucovina had been separated from Moldova on 05.07. 1775 )
