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PSD's (Social Democratic Party) spokesman Dan Sova maintains that Prime Minister Victor Ponta's visit to the USA is meant to strengthen political and economic ties between the two countries.

President Traian Basescu's letter on the situation in Ukraine was sent to the Deputies' Chamber plenum for briefing, this forum's secretary Niculae Mircovici announced on Monday.

'Mr President's letter about the situation in Ukraine goes to the plenary session for briefing,' Mircovici said at the end of the Standing Bureau meeting.

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Romania is protected against the "0.01 per cent" possibility that Russia might one day attack the country, President Traian Basescu said on Sunday after last week's NATO summit in Wales.

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The meeting of the National Council of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), bringing together today, in Craiova, about 5,000 Social Democrats, began under the slogan "A strong Romania - change through to the end." PSD leader, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, will seek on this occasion the support of his party fellows for his presidential bid this fall.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta told Antena 3 private broadcaster on Wednesday evening that President Traian Basescu can postpone the promulgation of the law for a cut in the social security contributions (CAS) until after January 1, 2015 if the president challenges the law with the Constitutional Court after a revote on it in Parliament.

President Traian Basescu asks for immediate investigations of the circumstances of the airliner downed in Ukraine and demands the participation of EU experts in the inquiry, a release of the Presidential Administration informed.