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RADOR: News from Romania, 00-02-09
February 9, 2000
CONTENTS
[01] Visit to the United Kingdom of the President of Romania Emil
Constantinescu
[02] The restructure of the working personnel of the Cabinet of Romania
[03] Restructure of the Home Ministry
[04] Press statement of the Minister of Transportation Traian Basescu
[05] Appeal to Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu to solve the conflict between
the striking teachers and the Ministry of Education
[06] Estimations of the representative of the International Monetary Fund
to Romania
[07] Romanian Public Television stands for the setting up of a channel
devoted to Parliamentary activity
[01] Visit to the United Kingdom of the President of Romania Emil
Constantinescu
The President of Romania was received by Queen Elisabeth II-nd on Tuesday.
The Queen awarded President Constantinescu the Order Saint Michael and
Saint George which is the highest order given to guests on official visits
to the UK. President Constantinescu said after the reception that the Queen
and he discussed about cultural British-Romanian projects. According to
RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI the head of the Romanian state also met with
Prime Minister Tony Blair; after the talk President Constantinescu said
that the relations of Romania with the United Kingdom have become the
pillar of Romania's integration in the European Union. In the morning the
Romanian guest also met with the leader of the Conservative Party and with
the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS BECOME A PILLAR OF ROMANIA'S
INTEGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION said the President of Romania Emil
Constantinescu after his meeting on Tuesday afternoon with the Prime
Minister of the British Cabinet Tony Blair. Among other things the
interlocutors discussed about the guarantee by the British Cabinet of a
credit for the project of drinking water to the villages of Romania. The
Romanian President declared after the meetings yesterday that Bucharest
will be visited in March by the Lord Mayor of London the visit being
focused on the development of Romania's capital city as a center of
finances while the Lord chancellor will visit our country in the month of
April. The president of Romania said he was very impressed by the fact that
Queen Elisabeth II-nd knew so much about Romanian realities - said the
special correspondent of RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI to London.
[02] The restructure of the working personnel of the Cabinet of Romania
The Executive Bureau of the Cabinet of Romania met yesterday to analyze the
ways and means of restructuring and reorganizing the departments and
agencies of the Government. In essence we talk of a cut by half of
personnel either by the dissolution or by the joining of these structures.
RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI quotes government sources according to whom the
present departments of information, of the spokesperson and of relations
with Romanians living abroad will be merged in one single department.
[03] Restructure of the Home Ministry
Constantin Dudu Ionescu who is the Home Minister of Romania said that his
Ministry will be restructured in the sense of eliminating intermediary
stages and slimming down central structures. The Home Minister of Romania
told the correspondent of RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI that stress will be
laid on the actions of prevention and discouraging criminals.
[04] Press statement of the Minister of Transportation Traian Basescu
Minister of Transports Traian Basescu arrived from Brussels last night
where he attended the meeting of the delegations of the Governments of
Romania and Bulgaria which unfolded in the presence of the special
coordinator of the pact of stability Bodo Hombach and of the European
commissioner Gunther Verheugen. Mr. Basescu spoke to the media at the
Otopeni airport and gave details about the improvement and expansion of the
ferryboat links between Romania and Bulgaria as well as about the building
of the second bridge across the river Danube. The building of the bridge
will be financed by the Bulgarian side and it is worth one billion USD says
RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI adding that the location will be established by a
committee of experts of the two countries.
[05] Appeal to Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu to solve the conflict between
the striking teachers and the Ministry of Education
Signatories of the appeal are asking for the assumption of responsibility
by the Prime Minister for the conflict to be solved and for the alocation
of four per cent of the Gross Industrial Product to education. The appeal
is signed by 84 MPies belonging to the opposition parties and an MP
belonging to the ruling PNTCD - Christian Democratic National Peasants
Party informs RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI.
[06] Estimations of the representative of the International Monetary Fund
to Romania
Stephane Cose who is the new representative of the International Monetary
Fund to Romania said as part of an interview to RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE
that the Romanian side should proceed to a number of clarifications in as
far as the civil servants are concerned. SALARIES OF ARMY OFFICERS AND OF
THE POLICE HAVE BEEN RAISED DRAMATICALLY IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS said Mr.
Cose adding that the ECONOMY OF ROMANIA IS WELL and that ROMANIA PAID PART
OF ITS FOREIGN DEBT IN DUE COURSE AND IN TIME. What is less encouraging,
according to the IMF representative, is THE NEGATIVE ECONOMIC INCREASE AND
INFLATION WHICH IS 55 per cent. Mr. Cose added that he appreciated a number
of measures adopted by the Isarescu Cabinet with a view to simplifying the
taxation and collecting systems in this country. RADOR
[07] Romanian Public Television stands for the setting up of a channel
devoted to Parliamentary activity
The Director of the Romanian Public Television Cristian Hadji Culea said he
suggested to the Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies, by a letter he
sent them, the creation of a channel to be exclusively devoted to
Parliamentary activity. The Director of Romanian Public Television adds in
the letter that costs are not big as national television offers all
logistic support, informs RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI.
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