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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-01-19
January 19, 1998
CONTENTS
[01] A Reaction to President Emil Constantinescu's Televised Address
[02] Executory Working Meeting
[03] The Approval of the Governmental Resolution Concerning the Functioning
of the Privatizing Ministry
[04] VAT Is to Be not Modified
[05] An Important Syrian Businessmen Delegation Pay a Visit to Romania
[06] Trade and Economic Co-operation between Romania and the Republic of
Moldova
[07] Romania - Series Leader in the 7th Group of the European Football
Championship
[01] A Reaction to President Emil Constantinescu's Televised Address
Giving a new impetus to the reform and regaining the confidence of the
population and of foreign countries, are the top priorities of 1998 - reads
a communique published by the Democratic Party in Romania, on Sunday. The
document is a reaction to the televised address made by President Emil
Constantinescu concerning the political dispute between the Democratic
Party and the Christian Democratic National Peasant Party, both members of
the Government coalition. The Democratic Party's communique says that the
President has transferred the political debate on the reform to Parliament,
without justified reasons. After two weeks of statements by the two parties,
the Romanian President delivered a televised address on Saturday evening,
in which he summoned Romania's Parliament in an extraordinary session for
Wednesday, January 21st. He said that the dispute within the government
coalition was affecting the progress of the reform and had a negative
impact on the economy. The President of Romania asked the leaders of the
political parties to put an end to the conflict and to place the national
interest above anything else. President Constantinescu also asked Prime
Minister Victor Ciorbea to commit the Government's responsability in
Parliament with regard to the major draft laws of the reform.
[02] Executory Working Meeting
Executory modified and completed the work study standards concerning the
granting of the help for thermic energy suplimentary expenses to some
special categories of the population, as says ROMANIA RADIO NEWS. On
Saturday, the Executory decided: the share for the owed delay increases,
for paying not in time of the budgetary bonds, such as taxes, duties,
contributions and other budgetary incomes was settled to 0.25% for each day
of delay. The Executory also approved three decisions concerning the
industrial sector. At a press conference in Victoria Palace, the Trade and
Industry Minister, Mircea Ciumara, detailed these decisions: "The first
decision is referring to the coal price. It cannot be free because in the
domain of mining a restructuring was not done, so that a competition is out
of the question. The same situation concerns fuels. We were also extended
the period for mentaining under control the coal price and I hope that the
restructuring in the domain is to be finished in a half of the year".
According to the Industry Minister, the second governmental decision is
referring to the setting up of the National Agency for Development and
Implementation of Restructuring Programmes in Mining Zones. The third
decision settles the regulation for compensation of unrepaid debts to the
industry settling day. RADOR
[03] The Approval of the Governmental Resolution Concerning the Functioning
of the Privatizing Ministry
Today, the governmental resolution concerning the functioning of the
Privatizing Ministry has been approved. This Ministry head office will be
in the former building belonging to the Privatizing National Agency. The
mentioned agency will also offer the emplyees for the new ministry, but
only after an examination. PRO TV quotes the Privatizing Minister, Valentin
Ionescu, who has done some specifications concerning the structure of this
ministry: "This is not a beaurocratic ministry, there are only two
departments with four general managements". The Minister Valentin Ionescu
has also detailed the privatizing standards for commercial societies:
"...the standards are referring to the sale procedures of those shares
issued by the commercial societies where the state is one of the
shareholders or one of the partners as well to the sale procedures held by
those commercial societies controlled by state". The privatizing will be
possible to be done by public offer for sale on capital market, by direct
negotiation, auction and by deposit certificate. RADOR
[04] VAT Is to Be not Modified
VAT modification was postponed in the government meeting on Saturday. The
implications of this postponing were analysed by Finance Secretary of State,
Dan Radu Rusanu, for PRO TV. This postponing was also correlated to another
government demand: the project for diminishing the wage tax. Speaking about
the subject, Dan Radu Rosianu said: "...not even now, after so long period,
it is not understandable that inside a budget the income and expenditure
balance is absolutely necessarily". RADOR
[05] An Important Syrian Businessmen Delegation Pay a Visit to Romania
An important Syrian businessmen delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister
centred on economical problems, Salim Yassim, together with other four
ministers, has arrived in Bucharest, on Sunday. They have come for
participating at the Joint Governmental Commission, Romania-Syria, works
since Monday. According to ROMANIA RADIO NEWS, the Trade and Industry
Minister, Mircea Ciumara, declared, on the occasion, that a reciprocal
warming of our relationship is to be done, as well signing of some
agreements concerning commerce, transport, youth and sport domains. "We
have also to find a solution according to which Syria to be able to become
a gate towards Arabian world, for Romania", also said Mircea Ciumara. The
leader of Syrian delegation, Deputy Prime Minister Salim Yassim has
mentioned a multitude of problems from his agenda referring to economic co-
operation, commercial, scientific and other domains relations, such as
health and education. RADOR
[06] Trade and Economic Co-operation between Romania and the Republic of
Moldova
A group of Romanian experts are now in Chisinau to assess the state of
trade and economic co-operation between Romania and the Republic of
Moldova. This analysis is made on the basis of the agreement signed in
March 1997, at the end of the session of the Interministerial Commettee for
bilateral ties.
[07] Romania - Series Leader in the 7th Group of the European Football
Championship
Romania is series leader in the 7th group of the European Football
Championship, the final tournament of which will be held in the year 2000
and will be organized for the first time by two countries: Belgium and the
Netherlands. After lots drawing on Sunday at Gand, Belgium, Romania's group
also includes Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, Liechtenstein and Azerbaidjan.
The matches of the nine preliminary groups of the European Football
Championship will be played between September 1998 and October 1999 and the
final tournament, hosted by four Dutch towns and four Belgian towns will
take place between June 10th and July 2nd, 2000.
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