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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-06-19
June 19, 1998
CONTENTS
[01] Romania Government Entitled to Issue Ordinances During MPs' Holiday
[02] PD Expresses Its Further Support for Vasile Cabinet;
[03] PNL Believes Political Alliances Are Still Necessary;
[04] PAR Press Conference;
[05] PNTCD Deputy Gheorghe Cristea Says Agriculture Minister Should Step
Down;
[06] Session of "Romania at Crossroads" Forum;
[07] Turkish Prime Minister on a Visit to Romania;
[08] Decision Concerning Romania's Participation in Peace-Keeping
Operations in Bosnia.
[01] Romanian Government entitled to issue ordinances during MPs' holiday
At their meeting on Thursday, the Romanian deputies have approved the draft
law allowing the Romanian Government to issue ordinances during the MPs'
holiday. Such ordinances could include decisions concerning the financial
support of farmers, an accelerated privatisation process, social securities,
labour forces, salaries, health, transports and telecommunications, defence,
public order, national security and minorities. RADOR
[02] PD expresses its further support for Vasile Cabinet
The vicepresident of the ruling Democratic Party (PD), Cristian Radulescu
said on Thursday his party expressed its further support for Vasile Cabibet
as it kept its previous promises. The will of the voters in 1996 did not
significantly change to motivate an eventual reconsideration of relations
within the PD-CDR alliance, Mr Radulescu added. Referring to the elections
for Bucharest City Hall, the PD leader said his party did not make any
promise concerning its virtual support of the PDSR or CDR candidate. Mr
Radulescu mentioned that the Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR)
might become the partner of the PD as soon as the opposition party would
solve its interbal differences between reformers and state-ownership
supporters. PD Vicepresident Traian Basescu said there was a need for both
political and public debates over the cases of PD members concerning their
alleged cooperation with the former Securitate services as stipulated in
the Ticu Dumitrescu Law. The PD vicepresident believes that the law should
be completed as soon as possible. RADOR
[03] PNL believes political alliances are still necessary
By the end of the year at the latest, the ruling National Liberal Party
(PNL) is to adopt its political and economic strategy on the verge of the
year 2000. At a press conference on Thursday, PNL first vicepresident
Valeriu Stoica said that his party's participation in the governing
coalition should be evaluated according to the party's own programme and
the interests of Liberal voters. He said the PNL believes, given recent
developments in Romania, that aliances between parties were still necessary,
and the party calls on its partners of the Democratic Convention in Romania
(CDR) to deeply examine the activity, structure and politics within the
alliance. RADOR
[04] PAR press conference
"The Romanian voters have welcomed "Romania's Right-Wing Manifesto" in
support of a united political right-wing pole". The first vicepresident of
Romania's Alternative Party (PAR) Adrian Iorgulescu said on Thursday. Mr
Iorgulescu said that 25 deputies and senators belonging to the Christian
Democrat national Peasant Party (PNTCD), Liberal Party (PL) and PNL along
with other major Romanian personalities have already signed the document.
Referring to recent reports of an alleged cooperation between politicians
and the former Securitate services, Mr Iorgulescu said they did not emerge
accidentally and he accused the Opposition of coordinating an underground
campaign on the matter. RADOR
[05] PNTCD Deputy Gheorghe Cristea says agriculture minister should step
down
The chief commissioner for agriculture in the Romanian House of Deputies,
PNTCD Deputy Gheorghe Cristea, said Romanian Agriculture Minister Dinu
Gavrilescu should resign. Mr Cristea says the minister has neglected both
the reform policy of the Government and the PNTCD indeology over the issue.
RADOR
[06] Session of "Romania at Crossroads" Forum
At the Cotroceni Palace on Thursday, the Forum for regional and
interregional development "Romania at Crossroads" has presented its yearly
report, the RRI reported. Romanian President Emil Constantinescu has
attended the session. Aimed at promoting important projects of economic and
social development, the forum has managed to bring our country into the
international focus mainly for its major infrastructure projects. The
Romanian president pointed out that such projects sopped Romania from being
a "blank on the world map". The president said "it was in a professional
way that Romania has learned to present its opportunities, and with quick
results. Major projects, that Romania did not miss, should be politically
sustained, and the Romanian Government should be firmly committed to prove
the country's stability by its own efforts to achieve the task". RADOR
[07] Turkish prime minister on a visit to Romania
Romanian Prime Minister Radu Vasile met his Turkish counterpart Mesut
Yilmaz at the Victoria Palace on Thursday. They both have expressed their
support for investment projects in energy, transport, oil producing and
machine building. While on a two-day visit to Bucharest, Prime Minister
Yilmaz pointed out the event was a achance to revigorate cooperation
between the two countries. As far as the recent developments in the Balkans
were concerned, Romania and Turkey shared similar opinions mainly about the
conflict in the Serb province of Kosovo. According to the RRA, the Turkish
prime minister has promised that, at a press conference on Friday, he would
provide further details about his visit and Turkey's relations with
Romania. RADOR
[08] Decision concerning Romania's participation in peace-keeping
operations in Bosnia
At a joint session in Parliament on Thursday, the Romanian senators and
deputies have answered the Romanian president's request concerning
Romania's future participation in peace-keeping operation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina between June 21-30. Romania's military participation will
incude an infantery unit, a trasport unit, a military police unit, Staff
personnel and two C-130 Hercules transport planes. RADOR
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