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RADOR: News from Romania, 99-05-17
May 17, 1999
CONTENTS
[01] Debates of UDMR - Union of Democratic Mgyars of Romania - Congress
[02] Prahovo fire affects Romania and Bulgaria
[03] Sofia meeting of the foreign ministers of Romania,Bulgaria and Greece
[01] Debates of UDMR - Union of Democratic Mgyars of Romania - Congress
Marko Bela was reelected President of the Union of Democratic Magyars of
Romania-UDMR-with 274 votes for of the toal of 431 as against 107 votes for
which went to his opponent in the race Kincses Elod President of the Mures
branch of UDMR. The Congress has thus sanctioned moderate line of President
Marko Bela and agreed with furthering UDMR siding with ruling coalition
says RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. Mr. Marko Bela presented a report to the
participants in the Congress asking coalition partners to work together for
the solution of the problems of the country and for meeting the specific
demands of Magyar minority. He rejected any analogy with the situation in
Kosovo and insisted on the fact that Magyars of Transylvania seek to change
situation by political means. On the other hand honorary president Laszlo
Tokes said the precedent in Yugoslavia must be used for a negociation of
the concept of autonomy and complained that national minorities of Romania
are subjected to ethnical cleansing. Bishop Laszlo Tokes came before the
Congress of UDMR with proposals and initatives among which the altering of
the paragraph of the Constitution defining Romania as a national state.
Bishop Tokes also wishes that a round table be held rallying Romanians and
Magyars, the inclusion be stated of the principle of Transylvanism in the
UDMR programme by which special policies for Transylvania be adopted also
by strategic partnership of Magyars and Romanians in the area. At the same
time in his opinion UDMR should leave the ruling coalition, the Treaty with
Hungary should be modified as the situation of Magyars in Romania has not
improved in any way. Hungarian State Secretary Nemeth Zsolt was asked by
the media which was the stand of the Budapest Government on the concept of
autonomy and his answer reads that if UDMR makes a decision in this sense
the Hungarian Government will find ways to support it as Hungary is also
supporting aspiration to autonomy of Magyars living in Vojvodina. The
Congress adopted the statute and the programme of UDMR. The main
modification of the programme refers to relaunching regional policy of UDMR
in the areas where Magyar community lives, a policy that should be
supported by strategy, particularly in the economic domain, aimed at
decentralization, as well as in the joint programme of the coalition. In a
press conference Mr. Marko Bela,quoted by RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI,said he
wished the building of partnership with Romanians all over Transylvania as
this is the area of interethnic living together, a reason which would
demand specific partnership that will have particulr importance in the
economic field as well. RADOR
[02] Prahovo fire affects Romania and Bulgaria
Following bombing of oil terminals at Prahovo in Serbia fire broke out and
smoke clouds propagated over Bulgaria and Romania.Inhabitants of villages
Izvoarele, Pristol and Gruia felt choking smell for some minutes after
which the clouds were driven away by the wind, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI
reports quoting the Turnu Severin Environment Protection Agency. The
Environmental Monitoring Department of the Ministry of Waters, Forests and
Protection of the Environment mentions in its Sunday report that the Danube
was not polluted while in the country and in the capital city of Bucharest
radioactivity was within normal limits of variation of the natural fund.
RADOR
[03] Sofia meeting of the foreign ministers of Romania,Bulgaria and Greece
Foreign ministers of Romania, Greece and Bulgaria adopted a joint
declaration in Sofia on Saturday expressing support for the peace plan of 6
May by the seven main industrial countries and Russia asking the Belgrade
officials to accept this peace plan. The three foreign ministers also
underlined the necessity of a substantial participation of the
international community to the programmes of humanitarian aid to the Kosovo
refugees and voiced their hope that the pact of stability in the Balkans
proposed by the European Union will be worked out and implemented after the
end of the conflict and will have a solid component part connected to all
countries affected by the Kosovo crisis, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI informs.
The three foreign ministers also tackled the possibility of developing
regional infrastructure and its interconnection to the system of European
transport by modernizuing railways,highways and harbours as well as by the
building of a second bridge over the river Danube as part of the Pan
European 4-th transport corridor, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI reports. Mr.
Andrei Plesu said that ball was in the court of experts and that final
variant would not be ready until 2010. RADOR
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