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RADOR: News from Romania, 00-02-04
February 4, 2000
CONTENTS
[01] POLITICS, ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL NEWS
[02] Minister of Finance presented the budget for the current year
[03] Rezolutions of the Government
[04] Romanian visit of the United States under-secretary of State Pickering
[05] Press Conference of the Popular Party of Romania
[06] Awards for the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation
[01] POLITICS, ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL NEWS
Session of the Government which was chaired in the first part by President
Emil Constantinescu was devoted to the examination of the government
project of economic strategy on medium term. After the session both the
President of Romania and the Prime Minister made statements to the press
which were broadcast live by RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. Prime Minister
Mugur Isarescu said that expenditure is cut down beginning with the
Government: the ministries will follow suit. President Emil Constantinescu
said the budget for the current year will be debated by all parties in the
coalition and in the opposition. He underlined that the initiative of
working out a strategy for a medium term of development was not imposed by
the European Union and that for the success of the project we need to be
united towards the same goal. Romania must present to the European Union
the image of a country which knows exactly what it wants and which does not
waste resources. RADOR
[02] Minister of Finance presented the budget for the current year
RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI informs that Finance Minister Decebal Traian
Remes said the consolidated budget is worked out starting from the premise
that inflation is 27 per cent this year and that one USD is equal to 20500
lei. Total value is 725 thousand billion lei. RADOR
[03] Rezolutions of the Government
The second part of the session on Thursday of the Cabinet of Romania was
devoted to the setting up of the Committee for National Strategy of
economic development. The Committee is led by two chairmen who are Prime
Minister Isarescu and Academician Tudorel Postolache. The Commitee
concludes activity on 15 May this year with a presentation of the national
strategy of eeconomic development. A second rezolution sanctions the
setting up of the Interdepartmental group for speeding up necessary
measures with a view to ensuring a regime of free circulation to the
Romanian citizens in the European Union countries. A third rezolution deals
with the creation of the National Agency of public servants. RADOR
[04] Romanian visit of the United States under-secretary of State Pickering
United States Under-Secretary of State for political affairs Thomas
Pickering met at the residence of the United States Ambassador to Romania
with the leaders of ApR and PDSR, both parties being in the opposition.
After the meeting the leader of PDSR Ion Iliescu told RADIO ROMANIA
ACTUALITATI in an exclusive interview that he had an exchange of views with
the United States official regarding the international situation and the
pact of stability in the Balkans in which it was stressed that zonal
stability is conditioned by national stability in the conditions in which
poverty is the most dangerous reality of our days. The isolation of Serbia
will not solve the problems of that country. Both Mr. Iliescu and the ApR
leader Teodor Melescanu told the guest during their talk that our country
is very much interested in accesion to the European Union and to the Euro
Atlantic structures.
Thomas Pickering also met with foreign minister Petre Roman with whom he
had a new round of talks regarding strategic partnership between Romania
and the United States. During the meeting the two officials launched a new
framework-document of Romania and the United States which sanctions the
passage to the intensified phase of the Partnership as established in
Washington D.C. last week during the talks between US secretary of state
Albright and Romanian foreign minister Roman focused on four domains which
are economy, regional stability, bilateral military relations and non
conventional risks, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI reports. RADOR
[05] Press Conference of the Popular Party of Romania
The President of the Popular Party of Romania, Radu Vasile, said in Brasov
on Thursday that his political party was not aimed at working against PNTCD
- Christian Democratic National Peasants Party - but it is a new party
which is attached to the democratic values of the country and has a
powerful social drive. Radu Vasile hopes that this party becomes a real
force in the Romanian political arena. In his turn the Executive President
of the Party, Sorin Lepsa, said the new party which was set up at Brasov
works on the structures of the Party the Romanian Right Wing, informs RADIO
ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. RADOR
[06] Awards for the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation
Department Canale Nationale of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation
represented by Deputy Director General Paul Grigoriu and Canalul Cultural
represented by Ana-Maria Sireteanu were awarded by the Academy of Romania
President Eugen Simion for the excellent collaboration between the two
institutions and for the promotion of the great national poet of Romania
Mihai Eminescu by the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation, RADIO ROMANIA
ACTUALITATI transmits. RADOR
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