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Romania [a] is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe.It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast.
Romania has participated since 1991 in UN peacekeeping missions and was part of those of Iraq and Kuwait, Afghanistan, Haiti and more. [ 5 ] Apart from resolutions 29 and 109, there also was the United Nations Security Council Resolution 992 related to Romania, in which the latter was asked to monitor the use of locks in the Danube River and ...
Romania's major historical sites, known as monumente istorice ("Historic monuments"), are listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, which was created between 2004 and 2005. As of 2015, 30,148 Heritage sites are entered in the National Cultural Heritage of Romania. [ 1 ]
Television in Romania started in August 1955. State television started to broadcast on 31 December 1956. State television started to broadcast on 31 December 1956. The second television channel followed in 1968, but between 1985 and 1990, there was only one Romanian channel before the return of the second channel.
State-run Radio Romania operates four national networks and regional and local stations. BBC World Service is available on 88 FM in the capital, and is relayed in Timișoara (93.9), Sibiu (88.4) and Constanta (96.9). Private FM stations dominate the market in Romania, with more than 700 licenses from the National Broadcasting Council by 2009.
In 2018, Daniel Dragomir, suggested on Facebook that Romania should leave the European Union (EU). Dragomir, a nationalist against the anti-corruption policies of the country and a former Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) member, stated that EU membership was affecting Romanian national sovereignty and that Brussels was "robbing from us".
However, Joja and the official Romanian diplomatic delegation for the UN would not arrive in New York City until 20 March 1956. [3] The persons that have been the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations have been the following: [4] Athanase Joja (1955 [3] –1957) Mihai Magheru (1957–1959) Silviu Brucan (1959–1961)
As of 2024, there are 11 World Heritage Sites in Romania, [3] nine of which are cultural sites and two of which are natural. The first site in Romania, the Danube Delta, was added to the list at the 15th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Carthage in 1990. Further sites were added in 1993 and 1999 and some of the sites were ...