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RADOR: News from Romania, 00-03-08
March 8, 2000
CONTENTS
[01] Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister's Visit to London
[02] Defense Minister's Statement Concerning the Postponement of the Dutch
Defense Minister's Visit to Romania
[03] Results of Mihai Razvan Ungureanu's Visit to Trancarpathia
[04] The Moldovan Foreign Affairs Ministry Criticizes the Decision of the
Romanian Authorities Regarding Applications for Romanian Citizenship
[05] French-Romanian Forum Dedicated to "Road Transports Infrastructure"
[06] Meeting of the Commission in Charge with Drawing up the Mid-Term
Economic Strategy
[07] Meeting of the Civil Alliance, representatives of PNTCD, PNL, UFD, FER
and PER
[08] Drugs Confiscated by the Romanian Customs Officers
[01] Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister's Visit to London
Foreign affairs minister Petre Roman, who is paying an official visit to
London, met the chairmen of the two Houses of the British Parliament,
representatives of the royal family, representatives of the financial and
banking milieus in the City, and attended a dinner offered by his
counterpart, Robin Cook. Petre Roman said during a press conference on
Tuesday that the Romanian-British political relations were excellent. The
Romanian minister said his country was very interested in increased direct
British investments, adding the economic reform in Romania was well
directed and would continue. RADOR
[02] Defense Minister's Statement Concerning the Postponement of the Dutch
Defense Minister's Visit to Romania
Defense minister Victor Babiuc said the Dutch defense minister's visit to
Romania, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed, because the Foreign Affairs
Ministry notified the Embassy in the Hague to send a message in this
respect. RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI informs that Babiuc stressed he had
nothing to do with this postponement, the first such case recorded. RADOR
[03] Results of Mihai Razvan Ungureanu's Visit to Trancarpathia
Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, state secretary in the Foreign Affaire Ministry,
told reporters in Baia Mare the visit payed by a Romanian delegation to
Transcarpathia allowed the identification of the best projects aimed at
repairing the infrastructure in the region, that would contribute to the
area's increased role along the 4th European transport route, and to a
direct access to the communication links between the Baltic Sea and the
Black Sea. During the talks with the regional authorities in Ukraine,
Ungureanu insisted on supporting culturally the Romanian ethnic minority by
financing a newspaper in Romanian, increasing the time of the radio and TV
broadcasts in Romanian, and publishing books in Romanian. Ungureanu said,
quoted by RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI: "We are interested that the Romanian
population North of the river Tisa maintain their identity and show the
same loyalty to the Ukrainian state". RADOR
[04] The Moldovan Foreign Affairs Ministry Criticizes the Decision of the
Romanian Authorities Regarding Applications for Romanian Citizenship
The Moldovan Foreign Affairs Ministry disagrees with the fact that Romania
decided, without consultations with the authorities in Chisinau, to
indirectly prompt the Moldovan citizens to break the country's laws. The
spokesman of the Ministry, quoted by RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI, said on
Tuesday that Bucharest's decision to grant some counties in Romania the
right to accept applications for Romanian citizenship was disturbing. The
Republic of Moldova does not recognize double citizenship, althouth
hundreds of Moldovan citizens applied for Romanian citizenship following
the beginning of negotiations in view of Romania's joining the European
Union. RADOR
[05] French-Romanian Forum Dedicated to "Road Transports Infrastructure"
The French-Romanian forum regarding "Road transports infrastructure"
started on Tuesday morning, with messages addressed by the Senate chairman
Mircea Ionescu Quintus, the foreign affairs minister Petre Roman, and the
head of the European Commission in Romania Fokion Fotiadis. The opening
speeches were delivered by Romanian transports minister Traian Basescu and
French ambassador in Bucharest Pierre Menat. Traian Basescu said, quoted by
RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI, that the strategic objective of modernizing and
repairing the Romanian transports infrastructure was its integration into
the European system, and that the road infrastructure would be completely
repaired by 2004, and the rail infrastructure by 2010. RADOR
[06] Meeting of the Commission in Charge with Drawing up the Mid-Term
Economic Strategy
The debates within the commission in charge with drawign up the mid-term
economic strategy continued on Tuesday ar Snagov, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI
informs. The participants in the debates - representatives of the political
parties, of the trade unions and of the employers - considered the economic
priorities should be clearly defined. The Commission members agreed that
one of the objectives for the 2000-2004 period was a sustained economic
growth, able to foster an increased living standard, the development of the
middle class, a reduction in differences among different regions, and the
reduction of poverty. RADOR
[07] Meeting of the Civil Alliance, representatives of PNTCD, PNL, UFD, FER
and PER
On Tuesday, the representatives of the Civil Alliance, PNTCD, PNL, UFD, FER
and PER met to establish a common strategy of the center-right parties in
this year's elections. PNTCD suggested the drawing up of the code of
behavour for the local elections that, according to Remus Opris, should be
in consonance with all CDR functioning protocoles, and should lay the basis
of the political cooperation with other parties which are not members of
the Democratic Convention, such as UFD and UDMR. UFD representative
Laurentiu Ulici specified the parties signing that code would present
alternative offers for the elections and would support the better placed
candidate in the second round. PNL vice-president Puiu Hasotti said his
party would run in the general elections on the CDR lists of candidates,
and would support Emil Constantinescu in the presidential elections, RADIO
ROMANIA ACTUALITATI reports. RADOR
[08] Drugs Confiscated by the Romanian Customs Officers
The Romanian customs officers discovered and confiscated about 13 kilograms
of cocaine in the personal luggage of the Romanian-Canadian citizen Paul
Marcel Vasile. The customs officers suspicions were risen by the route
taken by the suspect, namely Caracas (Venezuela) - Madrid (Spain) -
Bucharest, route well known in drug smuggling. A gram of pure cocaine is
sold on the black market for 50-80 dollars, which means that the total
value of the drugs confiscated amounts to 650,000 dollars. RADOR
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