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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-01-14
January 14, 1998
CONTENTS
[01] Inloc CDR
[02] Andrei Plesu's Visit to Oslo
[03] Ceausescu Family's Collection
[04] Negotiations with LOOK OIL
[01] Inloc CDR
Bucharest - On Wednesday, during the meeting of its coordination board the
Democratic Party will decide whether it further participates in the
government. On Tuesday, in a televised interview, the leader of the
Democratic Party, Petre Roman, said that the government crisis in Bucharest
was not sparked by the resignation of the Transports Minister Traian
Basescu, a member of the Democratic Party, but by the delay in carrying out
the reform. The current crisis in the government coalition in Bucharest is
the outcome of the dispute between the Christian Democratic National
Peasant Party and the Democratic Party in the wake of the government's
having been criticised by the Transports Minister. In another move, on
Tuesday too, Ion Diaconescu, the President of the Romanian Democratic
Convention ( a political group made up of several parties and associations
led by the Christian Democratic National Peasant Party, the main component
of the coalition in Bucharest) declared that he hoped the Democratic Party
would confirm its further participation in the government, on Wednesday.Ion
Diaconescu also stated that the Democratic Party withdrawal from the
current government coalition would impose a change in all the structures of
the central as well local administration, fact which would affect Romania's
political and economic stability. In its turn, the Romanian Employers'Association
said it supported the current government coalition, led by Premier Victor
Ciorbea, as it has decided to achieve a real and lasting economic
macrostabilization in Romania.
[02] Andrei Plesu's Visit to Oslo
Romanian Foreign Minister, Andrei Plesu, met Norwegian Defense Minister,
Dag Jostein Fjaervoll on Tuesday, his second day of visit to Oslo. During
the same day on Andrei Plesu's agenda was found a meeting with the Romanian
Diaspora living in Norway, followed by an official dinner offered by his
Norwegian counterpart, Knut Volleback. On the first day of his visit, the
Romanian Foreign Minister has met Harald V, the King of Norway, and
Norwegian Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik. The idea according to which
Romania is a strong candidate for Euro-Atlantic integration has often been
mentioned during those meetings. Moreover, Oslo promised Bucharest to
support Romania's candidacy for the OSCE presidency in 2001. Andrei Plesu
has also met several representatives of important Norwegian companies. The
Norwegians showed a great interest in the process of privatising the
Shipyard in Mangalia, the second largest Romanian port on the Black Sea. At
the same time, the Norwegian companies Kvaerner and Statoil, which are
involved in the Caspian Project for transporting oil from the Caspian Sea
to Western Europe, expressed their real interest for a possible co-
operation with Romania. The Norwegian companies want to encourage Romanian
natural gas imports from Norway, which would imply connecting Romania to
the western gas pipeline network, element of strategic and economic
importance.
[03] Ceausescu Family's Collection
Bucharest: the management of the National History Museum hopes to get rid,
in a very short while, of Ceausescu family's collection, announced the
museum's press service. At present, a group of specialists, belonging to
the museum, are selecting the objects of the collection and are dividing
them into two categories: one is to be kept by the National History Museum,
for exhibitions as well for a permanent collection in order to illustrate
Ceausescu dictatorial epoch, and the second category of objects is to be
kept by the Romanian Ministry of Culture. If there are any furniture items
or carpets left, these will be donated to some orphanages or asylums.
Nowadays, over than 25 thousand objects, that formerly belonged to the
Ceausescu family, are stored in the National History Museum in Bucharest. A
great deal of these objects are presents received by the former communist
leader on his working visits abroad.
[04] Negotiations with LOOK OIL
Moscow. As special envoy of Romania's President, Dan Capatana is in Moscow
for negotiations with LOOK OIL concern, one of the biggest in the ex-Soviet
space. Dan Capatana is also the President of the ROMANIA ATA CROSSROADS
FOUNDATION, the aim of which is Romania's inclusion into the oil transport
route from Asia to Europe.
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