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RADOR: News from Romania, 97-03-25
CONTENTS
March, 25, 1997
[01] The European Union foreign ministers welcomed Romania's reform
programme
[02] The Party of Social Democracy and the Greater Romania Party resumed
their participation in Parliament
[03] Romania's prime-minister attends the meeting of the Council of the
European People's Parties
[04] Ex-King Michael the I-st of Romania visits Great Britain
[05] The Romanian television Company has become a shareholder in European
news channel Euronews
[06] Weather in Romania
[01] The European Union foreign ministers welcomed Romania's reform
programme
On Monday, the E.U. foreign ministers welcomed Romania's reform programme.
During the Bruxelles meeting of the Romania- E.U. Association Council, the
E.U. foreign ministers promised to further support for Romania's efforts to
accede to the European Union. The E.U. foreign ministers praised the
political changes in Bucharest and the economic programme of the new
government. The chairman of the E.U.Concil of Ministers, Hans Van Mielo,
also appreciated the Romanian-Hungarian Basic Treaty and expressed his hope
that Romania would sign a similar one with Ukraine. In his turn, the
Romanian foreign minister, Adrian Severin, said he hoped a treaty with
Ukraine would be signed as soon as possible. But he added that this treaty
needed to be drafted in such a way so that it should last for at least 100
years, therefore the treaty should not be designed just for immediate
compliance with NATO joining demands. RRI-RADOR, March 25
[02] The Party of Social Democracy and the Greater Romania Party resumed
their participation in Parliament
Two of the three opposition parties in the Romanian Parliament - the Party
of Social Democracy and the Greater Romania Party - resumed their
participation in the plenary sessions of the Parliament, after a week's
boycot. The MP's of the other opposition party, the National Unity Party,
did take part in the last week's sessions, but they wore a white strip on
their arms. This has been the first open conflict between power and
opposition since the general elections, held last November. The Party of
Social Democracy senator, Teodor Melescanu, said on Monday that the
attitude was neither a mere political show, nor determined by a private
affair, but was ment to settle normal relations between Government and
Parliament and between power and the opposition. Nevertheless, the source
of the conflict was determined by the Senate's decision to extend the
lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Corneliu Vadim Tudor, the
president of the Greater Romania Party, after he had been sued on charges
of slandering. The decision to lift Vadim Tudor's parliamentary immunity
had been taken by the former ruling party, the Party of Social Democracy.
The crisis was defused after the meeting between Romania's president, Emil
Constantinescu and the opposition leaders. RRI-RADOR, March 25
[03] Romania's prime-minister attends the meeting of the Council of the
European People's Parties
Romanian prime-minister, Victor Ciorbea, and the president of the Chamber
of Deputies, Ion Diaconescu, are participating at the meeting of the
Council of the European People's Parties, under way in Porto, Portugal. Mr.
Ciorbea delievered a speech on NATO's enlargement eastwards. Previousley,
the Romanian prime-minister had had talks in Madrid with his Spanish
counterpart, Jose Maria Aznar, whom he briefed on the development of the
Romanian reform and Romania's wish to join European and Euro-Atlantic
structures. RRI-RADOR, March 25
[04] Ex-King Michael the I-st of Romania visits Great Britain
Romania's former sovereign, King Michael the I-st, is to speak in London
about Romania's assets to accede NATO in the firs wave. On Monday, King
Michael met Queen Elisabeth the II-nd of Great Britain, for a private talk
and will also take part in a reception organised in his honour by the
Romanian Embassy in London. This is the first diplomatic event the former
sovereign Michael the I-st has developed to support Romania's efforts to
get a full NATO membership. RRI-RADOR, March 25
[05] The Romanian television Company has become a shareholder in European
news channel Euronews
The Romanian Television Company has become a shareholder in European news
channel Euronews. National TV director, mr. Stere Gulea, has signed an
accord with Euronews director, Jose Villa Abello, to this effect. The
contract grants Romanian TV the right to use two 15-minute packages daily
that will include news, cultural programmes and other topics. Thus Romania
becomes the third country in Eastern Europe, after Slovakia and the Czech
Republic, as well as the 28-th state overall, to hold a stake in Euronews.
RRI-RADOR, March 25
[06] Weather in Romania
Weather will be pretty cool for this period of the year, with possible
light snowfalls in the southern regions. The temperatures will range
between -8 and +8 degrees Celsius. In Bucharest, where this morning there
were -2 degrees, the weather will be rather cool with a high of 7 degrees
above 0. RADOR, March 25
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