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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-03-04

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From: RADOR Press Agency <http://indis.ici.ro/romania/news/rador.html>

March 4, 1998


CONTENTS

  • [01] Senate proceedings
  • [02] House of Deputies proceedings
  • [03] PL leadership in support of a new government and a new prime minister
  • [04] New law promulgated
  • [05] Ion Iliescu reiterates his belief: "It is better to be poor and honest"
  • [06] SNCFR president dismissed
  • [07] SANITAS representatives disappointed
  • [08] Hungarian ambassador on a visit to Botosani
  • [09] Resumption of Romanian-Yugoslav relations on border waters

  • [01] Senate proceedings

    The draft law allowing free access to former Romanian Intelligence files and the exposure of the Securitate as political police was subject to further debates on Tuesday in the Romanian Senate. All parliament groups have expressed their support for such an initiative which was perceived as a good opportunity for a moral clean up of the Romanian society. Participants in the Senate session included representatives of the Romanian National Defence Ministry (MApN), Ministry of Internal Affairs (MI), Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) and Romanian Intelligence (SRI). The Senate has discussed and then passed the draft law on banking bankruptcy and on approving the Emergency Ordinance 24/1997 concerning adoption procedures. Further debates also focused on the new adjustments to the Senate Regulations. RADOR, March 4

    [02] House of Deputies proceedings

    On Tuesday, the Romanian deputies have passed the Ordinance 34/1998 stipulating a raise in the salaries of health workers according to government proposals. Starting from February 1, the basic salaries of health workers will raise by 25%. According to new amendments adopted, the ordinance also refer to welfare personnel. The salaries of debutante and resident phisicians and pharmacists will raise by 30% starting from March 1. RADOR, March 4

    [03] PL leadership in support of a new government and a new prime minister

    The leaders of the Liberal Party (PL) have expressed their support for a new government and another prime minister. At a press conference on Tuesday, PL Deputy Octavian Bot said his party would support a reforming government including both representatives of the Democratic Convention in Romania (CDR) and PD members. Mr Bot said the departure of the IMF negotiators was a blow for the Executive. As far as the political crisis is concerned, the PL leadership says that both the governing Christian- Democrat National Peasant Party (PNTCD) and Romanian President Emil Constantinescu were to blame for it: PNTCD - for its further support for Prime Minister Victor Ciorbea, and the Romanian president - because he moved the PNTCD-PD conflict on to the parliament. RADOR, March 4

    [04] New law promulgated

    The Romanian Presidency announces in a communique that President Emil Constantinescu has promulgated the law concerning the rights of the people persecuted, deported or imprisoned for political reasons under the communist regime in power on March 6, 1945. RADOR, March 4

    [05] Ion Iliescu reiterates his belief: "It is better to be poor and honest"

    In his address to those wishing to congratulate him on the occasion of his birthday, former Romanian president Ion Iliescu said: "Despite the gossip around me, although some people try to depict me as a primitive instigator of hatered against someone else, I think that closer to the truth are my critics who say I am too goodhearted and not as tough as I should be with those who deserved it. But I do not share their opinion. I think that this so-called weakness of mine proves a strong character actually. I think that good men are actually strong. They are ready to play the role of a lightining rod in society, and take over all hardships, and thunders, and lightnings, the hatered of his enemies and the progress of the society. This is what I had wanted all my life: helping people and my country. I never wished my own prosperity. I did not try to play the poet when I said it was better to be poor and honest. It does not mean however that I want to idealise poverty or live in poor conditions. This is not the question. But the honesty means more than a robbery-based prosperity, and it is through honesty that we could find the path to prosperity, but not the prosperity of the few". RADOR, March 4

    [06] SNCFR president dismissed

    Romanian Transport Minister Anton Ionescu has ordered the dismissal of SNCFR President Virgil Leancu. Mr Leancu was replaced by Viorel Simut, a former Romanian Railways adviser in the Transylvanian town of Cluj-Napoca. The minister did not provide any further details about his decision. RADOR, March 4

    [07] SANITAS representatives disappointed

    The Romanian Service of the BBC reports that, without any further disputes, the Romanian deputies have passed the law stipulating a raise in salaries of health workers according to the government proposals, and the 25% increase remained unchanged. Due to PDSR Deputy Smaranda Dobrescu, two amendments were however adopted: a 30% to 40% raise in the salaries of MDs - too little, in trade unionists' opinion. The SANITAS trade unionists hope however that the Senate will adopt a more favouring version of the law: a 100% increase as some of the senators have previously promised. RADOR, March 4

    [08] Hungarian ambassador on a visit to Botosani

    The Hungarian ambassador to Bucharest Ferenc Socs is on a visit to the Moldavian town of Botosani. He had meetings with high ranking local officials in the County Council and he mentioned Budapest's growing interest in the county of Botosani as it has recently joined the Carpathian Euroregion including Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. RADOR, March 4

    [09] Resumption of Romanian-Yugoslav relations on border waters

    Between March 4-6, the Timisoara branch of the Romanian Autonomous Water Company is hosting a session aimed at preparing the resumption of the Romanian-Yugoslav cooperation on border waters. Participants include the Yugoslav deputy minister of agriculture, waters and forests, the Romanian secretary of state with the Ministry of Waters, Forests and Environment Protection, the chief of the Waters Coordination Directorate as well as other Yugoslav and Romanian experts. A new agreement on waters between the two countries will be signed in the Vojvodinian town of Novi Sad on the occasion of a meeting scheduled between March 31-April 3. RADOR, March 4


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