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RADOR: News from Romania, 00-08-25The Press Agency of the Romanian Radio (RADOR Society) Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: RADOR Press Agency <http://indis.ici.ro/romania/news/rador.html>August 25, 2000CONTENTS
[01] POLITICS, ECONOMIC and SOCIAL NEWS[02] Statement of the spokesperson of the CabinetGabriela Vranceanu Firea said that the Prime Minister did not make any decision regarding Finance Minister Decebal Traian Remes after he resigned from PNL-NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY as he did not receive any note from that party reading that it withdrew support for the Finance Minister Remes.[03] According to vicepresident of PDSR the Bucharest cabinet was notified of the fact that NATO expansion was postponedIoan Mircea Pascu said on Thursday at the summer courses for the youth organization of PDSR -Social Democracy Party of Romania- that the Bucharest cabinet was already notified of the decision to postpone the enlargement of NATO. Mr. Pascu said it would not be correct on the part of the present Cabinet to make use of the situation to accuse in the future, if it would be the case, PDSR, if it came back to power, of failure to adhere to NATO structures. Mr. Pascu also added the info was not fully checked. The PDSR leader also said that efforts will be continued by PDSR if it came back to power to integrate Romania in the North Atlantic structures regardless of the fact that the encumbent power made a number of mistakes at Madrid and Washington DC that hindered the country to become part of the North Atlantic structures and this despite the fact that PDSR had finalized all preliminary stages of this desideratum, namely adherence to NATO of Romania, informs RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI.[04] Negociations with the International Monetary FundPrime Minister Mugur Isarescu presented the members of his cabinet the achievements and shortcomings this year so that all of them should be prepared for the talks with the representatives of the International Monetary Fund. According to spokesperson Firea the Prime Minister said that unemployment in on the decrease, a sound economic increase is being registered, level of exports reached 900 million USD and the situation of the balance of payments is favourable. Inflation does present problems as it is of 34 - 35 per cent and so do the arrears. Romania would be not be able to receive the following instalment of the loan agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund before the month of October as the representatives of the Fund are staying in Romania until 10 September. We recall the fact that the representatives of the International Monetary Fund will learn from the Romanian officials the stage of fulfilling the demands of the stand-by accord in order to release the second instalment of the loan to our country.[05] CALENDARSala Palatului of the city of Bucharest is hosting the extraordinary congress of the Democratic Party - PD - whose debates started at 11:00 Bucharest local time.A meeting has been scheduled of the CDR 2000 Political Alliance with Finance Minister Decebal Traian Remes that recently announced his intention to leave the National Liberal Party - PNL. CDR 2000 has a new round of negociations regarding the political protocol and parliamentary lists at noon at the Parliament of Romania. Press conference of Decebal Traian Remes and the group of initiative for the creation of what they call THE GENUINE NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY at Casa Bratienilor. Meeting of the leaders of ApR and PDSR with a view to setting up a pre and post electoral collaboration at the seat of the Romanian Senate. The President of PDSR - Social Democracy Party of Romania - Ion Iliescu attends the debate organized by the Department of Foreign Policy and European Integration of PDSR at the Sala de Marmura of the Senate of Romania. In the afternoon the President of PDSR attends the debates of the Youth Organization of PDSR at Busteni, in the Prahova Valley, The theme of the debates is ROMANIA - PRESENT AND FUTURE. For the first time in the history of the Film Festival of Montreal in the International Jury of International Press ( FIPRESCI ) we have a Romanian representative, namely film critic Magda Mihailescu. The festival takes place in the interval 25 August - 5 September. [06] ANNIVERSARIESBirthday of Sir Sean Connery today. He was born seventy years ago.The Press Agency of the Romanian Radio (RADOR Society) Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |