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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-06-12
June 12, 1998
CONTENTS
[01] Weekly Cabinet Meeting;
[02] PNL Press Communique;
[03] PD and PDSR Expected to Meet Again;
[04] National Education Ministry Communique;
[05] PSDR Press Conference;
[06] Further Debates Over Art. 20 in the Law Allowing Access to Former
Securitate Files;
[07] Cartel Alfa Announcement of Protest Rally and March;
[08] President Emil Constantinescu on a Visit to the US;
[09] PNTCD Leader Ion Diaconescu Left for Stockholm;
[10] International Seminar on "EU Build Up Along with Romania";
[11] RRA Was Awarded the Golden Medal of ROMEXPO.
[01] Weekly Cabinet meeting
Romanian Government spokesman Rasvan Popescu has told a press conference on
Thursday that the Government adopted the draft law establishing the basic
salaries for workers with state-financed institutions and officials's
bonuses. The Government has also approved the draft law on the security of
secret reports, and the draft law entiteling the Cabinet to issue
ordinances during the MPs' holiday. The spJkesman has informed that the
Government submitted to Parliament a package of laws on reforms while
indicating that the legal power shoulf get further support. The Government
has asked the two Houses in Parliament to finalise debates over laws under
emergency regime. According to the same source, a future extraodinary
session in Parliament may be considered. RADOR
[02] PNL press communique
PNL first vicepresident Valeriu Stoica has told a press conference on
Thursday that the National Liberal Party (PNL) assumed every responsibility
as member of the Cabinet since December 1996, and more, it renounced its
own identity to the benefit of the Democratic Convention in Romania (CDR)
and the governing coalition as a whole. PNL says recent regretable events
indicate however that some parties and officials in the governing coalition
limited themselves from the actions and legal initiatives the Government
undertook. PNL reminds its coalition partners that the violation of the
coalition's guiJelines may lead to a new political crisis and asks all MP
groups of the majority to support the Vasile Cabinet in its efforts to
achieve the governing programme. Referring to recent demands put forward by
the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), the PNL
vicepresident said the coalition leaders did not surrender, but only
complied with the protocol already agreed. RADOR
[03] PD and PDSR expected to meet again
The vicepresident of the Democratic Party (PD), Bogdan Niculescu-Duvaz,
told a press conference on Thursday that his party and the opposition Party
of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR) were expected to meet again in the
next few days. PD ministers Traian Basescu and Radu Berceanu are to present
the PDSR MP group with the restructuring programme of autonomous utilities.
Mr Duvas has mentioned the PD previously informed its main coalition
partner - the Christian Democrat National Peasant Party (PNTCD) - that it
was about to meet PDSR representatives. He howevJr stopped short of
mentioning what was the PNTCD reaction to the news. He explained that, at
least for the time being, a social-democrat pole was still not expected to
be established through an alleged alliance between the PD and PDSR. RADOR
[04] National Education Ministry communique
RRA, the Romanian Ministry for National Education (MEN) says the demands
the Hungarian community put forward concerning the setting up of a
Hungarian language teaching university - solutions based on both ethnic
integration or separation - were unproductive for all parties involved.
Education Minister Andrei Marga, who has actually signed the communique,
believes that multicultural structures are most accurate. The reform of the
educational system is providing solutions to all sorts of cultural problems,
the Hungarian community's claims included. RADOR
[05] PSDR press conference
The leadership of the Romanian Social Democrat Party (PSDR) believes the
Government should have the political will to fight Jll obstacles, whatever
big they were, and achieve the restructuring programme of autonomous
utilities. PSDR Vicepresident Smaranda Dobrescu has told a press conference
on Thursday that the RENEL restructuring ( ed.n. RENEL - Romanian national
energy supplier) would break its monopoly and competition would lead to
lower prices in economy. RADOR
[06] Further debates over art. 20 in the law allowing access to former
Securitate files
At the Senate session on Thursday, PNTCD Senator Corneliu Turianu said the
article 20 in the law allowing access to your own former Securitate file
and the disclosure of the institution as political police should be
adopted. The article referres to the transfer of all Securitate records in
the archives of ministries and SRI (ed.n. Romanian Intellgence Service) to
the National Council for Studies of Former Securitate Archives. Mr Turianu
said he could not understand how could the legal commission in the Senate
reject the article when, only a few months agoJ it had approved it. The
senator believes that preserving the former Securitate files in the
archives of ministries and SRI would make their examination very difficult,
and today officials - alleged former informers - would feel protected.
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[07] Cartel Alfa announcement of protest rally and march
The vicepresident of CNS Cartel Alfa trade union federation, Romulus Nita,
has expressed his dicontent with the way some Government members considered
the trade union demands as stipualted in the protocol signed in October
'97. The trade union leader said the law on the labour court, the law
concerning securities for professional risk and the support of investment
programmes for mainly state-financed economic agents were some of the
demands the Government still did not answer. Therefore, the Alfa Cartel
will organise a rally in the Victoria Plaza on June 16, then followed by a
protest march. RADOR
[08] President Constantinescu on a visit to the US
While at the University of ColumbiaJ New York on Wednesday, Romanian
President Emil Constantinescu has pointed out his country's geographical
and historical position in Europe which, as he put it, was a "natural
bridge" connecting the central with the eastern and south-eastern regions
of the continent. He believes that such geopolitical conditions established
Romania as an ideal candidate for NATO membership. The president has also
mentioned Romania's good relations with the three countries recently
allowed to join NATO - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. RADOR
[09] PNTCD leader Ion Diaconescu left for Stockholm
The speaker of the Romanian House of Deputies, PNTCD leader Ion Diaconescu,
has left for Stockholm on Thursday to attend the Conference of European
Parliament Speakers on June 12-13. The Romanian delegation also includes
the Secretary General of the House of Deputies, Lucian Mihai. While at the
Otopeni International Airport, Mr Diaconescu stopped short of making any
statements to the press, the RRA mentiJned. RADOR
[10] International seminar on "EU Build Up Along with Romania"
The session of the international seminar on "EU Build Up Along with
Romania" has resumed at the Round Hall of the Intercontinental Hotel in
Bucharest on Thursday. The debates included issues concerning Romania's
economic and social situation. In the opening speech, former prime minister
Victor Ciorbea has presented participants with a report of his former
Cabinet's activity in an attempt to point out its goodwill efforts. The
PNTCD leader has insisted on property rights reform by both the Government
and Parliament because, as he put it, "the way our society was depended on
the sort of property we would like to promote". The head of the European
Popular Party (EPP) parliamentary group, Wilfried Marthens, and the
president of the Christian Democrat European Union (CDEU), Wim van Weltzen,
have also attended the session. RADOR
[11] RRA was awarded the Golden Medal of ROMEXPO
An advertising media awards ceremony haJ taken place at the SC ROMEXPO
headquarters in Bucharest. RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI (RRA) was awarded the
Golden Medal for its reporting of the events at TIBCO '98 - the
International Fair of Consumer Goods on May 21-27 (specialised exhibitions,
autoexpotechnica and sound & light). RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL (RRI) was
also awarded for its 17 language broadcast of the events at TIBCO'98.
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