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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-06-05

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

June 5, 1998


CONTENTS

  • [01] Cabinet Meeting;
  • [02] Members of National Minorities Department on a Visit to Harghita County;
  • [03] UDMR Threat;
  • [04] PSDR Replies;
  • [05] PAR's "Manifeto of the Romanian Right";
  • [06] Simple Motion by PUNR against Radu Vasile Cabinet;
  • [07] Memorandum between Romanian and British Defence Ministries;
  • [08] CEMN Summit in Yalta;
  • [09] Meeting of Secretaries in Central and East-European Parliaments.

  • [01] Cabinet meeting

    At a press conference on Thursday, Government spokesman Razvan Popescu has announced the Cabinet approved in principle the new system of basic salaries in state-financed departments. Another Government decision referred to the closing down of UM 0215 and its division into two departments under Interior Ministry (MI) coordination. The Cabinet has also adopted the draft law concerning the status of the legal adviser institution and the decision stipulating tax-free regime for imports sold in duty-free shops. Prime Minister Radu Vasile has asked the Reform Jinister and the Competition Office to table a proposal stipulating that Competition Office decisions should be first approved by the minister before being submitted to the Cabinet. Rador

    [02] Members of National Minorities Department on a visit to Harghita county

    Members of the Department for national minorities protection and the Commission for education, science and technology have arrived in the Transylvanian county of Harghita on Thursday for a three-day visit. They are expected to visit schools in the regions of Odorhei, Vlahita and Casin, The visit is aimed examining ways to further reform the mother tongue aducation in Romania. Welcoming his guests, the prefect of Harghita county Dezsi Zoltan said the meeting was an opportunity to establish the needs for next year as 1999 was a decisive school year for educational reform. Rador

    [03] UDMR threat

    The ruling Democratic Union of Ethic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) will withdraw from the Government unless the minority rights of ethJc Hungarians in Romania will be observed, UDMR leader Marko Bela said. He added that he could not accept anymore any delayys in solving the problems concerning the Ungarian language education as his party's leaders and its representatives throughout the country were about to lose their patience. The UDMR Council of Representatives will decide to withdraw from the Government unless concrete steps are made in Parliament towards solving the problems of the Hungarian minority. Marko Bela has asked his coalition partner to meet early next week and discuss the UDMR demands concerning the mother tongue education and the setting up of a Hungarian language university in Cluj. Rador

    [04] PSDR replies

    The ruling Romanian Social Democrat Party rejects any attempt by another party to decide the party's participation or non-participation in the Government, PSDR leader Sergiu Cunescu said. Mr Cunescu told a press conference he was surprised by the statement of Marian Enache the other day. At aJpress conference on Wednesday, Mr Enache, Vicepresident of the Alliance for Romania party, said PSDR should withdraw from Government if the two parties were about to merge in a solid social-democrat pole. Mr Cunescu mentioned that the PSDR agreement with the ApR referred only to their cooperation in Parliament while their merger was not decided yet. Rador

    [05] PAR's "Manifesto of the Romanian Right"

    At a press conference on Thursday, the ruling Romania's Alternative Party has presented its ten-point Manifesto including the main benefits, guarantees and rights a right wing democracy could provide to the Romanian people. PAR leader Varujan Vosganian said "we can see that left wing forces unite while the governing act did not include the right wing policy as right wing parties did not really exist though right wing politicians were there. The polical battle includes only left and centre-left wing parties", Mr Vosganian pointed out. Rador

    [06] Simple motion by PUNR against Radu Vasile Cabinet

    The executive secretary of the Romanians' National Unity Party (PUNR), Valentin Iliescu, has announce his party was to submit only a simple motion to Parliament against the Vasile Cabinet. His party has announced previously it was hoping to table a censorship motion and get the support of all opposition party. Mr Iliescu said the motion reffered to the hardships the retired people were facing and expressed the hope that his party's proposals would be subject to debates in Parliament as even some ruling parties have been already expressing their dissatisfaction during talks over the budget for state social securities. Rador

    [07] Memorandum between Romanian and British defence ministries

    Secretary of State Constantin Dudu Ionescu, the head of the Department for Defence Policies, and British Ambassador to Bucharest Christopher Crabbe have signed a memorandum on the behalf of the defence ministries in the two countries concerning their military cooperation programme in 1998. The J document includes mainly information exchange, participation in international conference to be organised by Britain, participation of Romanian military in training exercises organised by the British as part of the programme of military assistance, joint training operatiion and technical-military cooperation. Rador

    [08] CEMN summit in Yalta

    The CEMN summit in the Ukrainian resort of Yalta is to include a moment of major importance: the signing ceremony of the CEMN Charter transformin CEMN in a regional organisation. He says the event is most interesting given the economic potential it involves (a market including 11 countries and about 350 million inhabitant, and large and various natural resources) while the request of developed countries like France, China and Japan to get observer status was a proof of the interest the region could raise. According to Romanian authorities in Bucharest, CEMN is not an alternative to the EU, but a preparation to join it. Rador

    Romanian PrJsident is to attend the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (CEMN) summit in the Ukrainian resort in Yalta. In a statement before leaving the International Airport of Otopeni on Thursday, Mr Constantinescu said the meeting would include the signing ceremony of the CEMN Charter, an event establishing CEMN as institution. However, he has pointed out that CEMN was not supposed to be an alternative to the European Union while, on the contrary, it was some sort of a preparation for the EU enlargement". Rador

    Before leaving for Yalta, the Speaker of the Romanian Senate, Petre Roman, said the "Black Sea cooperation turned out to be one of the major European institution in recent days, and a bridge connecting the East to the West, the word "East" meaning also the Far East, China, and Japan while the word "West" meaning Western Europe. Already well known commercial and energy routes are a major point of interest for the world's biggest investors in both Western Europe or Far East, China, JJpan and South-East Asia, Mr Roman said. "Obviously, Romania is highly interested in the project", he admitted, "as our country is at the heart of the Black Sea area". Rador

    [09] Meeting of secretaries in Central and South-East European Parliaments

    A three-day meeting of secretaries general in Central and South-East European Parliaments has opened in Bucharest on Thursday. The Yugoslav delegation includes Mirislav Milenkovic, secretary general of the Federal Parliament in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Perisa Jovanovic, secretary of the Citizen's Assembly, and Vukic Bulatovic, secretary of the Republics' Assembly in Belgrade. The international forum hosted by the Romanian Senate is to examine the activity of secretariates in parliament and the role the secretary general could play in coordinating proceedings and legal operations. Rador
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