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RADOR: News from Romania, 97-12-22

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From: RADOR Press Agency <http://indis.ici.ro/romania/news/rador.html>

December 22, 1997


CONTENTS

  • [01] Eight Years since the 1989 Revolution
  • [02] Majority State Capital Companies to Be Privatised
  • [03] Rates of People's Opinion
  • [04] Concert
  • [05] Romanian - Hungarian Bilateral Cooperation
  • [06] First Christmas in Romania in 50 Years
  • [07] Different Perspectives
  • [08] Emergency Government Order Regarding the Revenue Tax
  • [09] Weather in Romania
  • [10] Currency Rates

  • [01] Eight Years since the 1989 Revolution

    It is 8 years this Sunday since the start in Bucharest of the December 1989 Revolution that broke out in Timisoara, Western Romania, five days earlier. On December 21st 1989, on the occasion of a rally staged by authorities to prove the people' support for Ceausescu's regime and to condemn the uprising alredy began in Timisoara - the people in Bucharest rose against the comunist dictatorship. After a night of bloody repression, on December 22nd, the army sided with the demonstrators and Ceausescu left the building of the Central Committee of the RCP by helicopter; later on he got arrested. The power was taken over by the Council of the National Salvation Front formed on the spot by the former comunist official Ion Iliescu. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were summarily trialed and got executed on December 25th. In tribute to the December 21st 1989 events the Romanian President Emil Constantinescu attended a memorial service in memory of the heroes who died during the Revolution. The service was performed by a group of priests headed by Patriarch Teoctist. The Romanian head of state together with the speaker of the Senate Petre Roman, the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Ion Diaconescu and other senior officials laid flower wreaths in various locations where significant events took place during the 1989 uprising. President Constantinescu assured the parents of the dead heroes that the Justice would solve the mysteries of the 1989 Revolution in Romania. RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [02] Majority State Capital Companies to Be Privatised

    The Romanian Government discussed and addopted on Sunday the emergency bill on the law over the privatisation of companies with majority state capital. The law states over the creation of the Ministry of Privatisation that will work out over the privatisation policy and over the regulations and will coordinate the whole privatisation process. The trade with those companies' shares will be performed only through and by the State Ownership Fund. RRI- RADOR, December 22

    [03] Rates of People's Opinion

    According to an opinion poll conducted and published in the press by the Center of Independent Social Studies and Polls, Romania's President Emil Constantinescu has maintained his popularity rate (52%). In a previous survey conducted in September this year no political leader has got the main percentage of the population's confidence as it happened to the political groups. The general trend is that Romanians' confidence in political parties somehow decreased but on the other hand they hope for economic recovery of the country and greater living standards. Thus, 62% of the Romanians believe that their general status was better as regards family life compared with the one in 1996 but things were worse as regards the purchasing power. RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [04] Concert

    The Palace Hall in Bucharest hosted on Saturday December 20th a performance that the well known Romanian pianist Dan Grigore offered to the public on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his debut on October 16 1957. Romania's President Emil Constantinescu, the former sovereign of Romania Mihai the Ist, his wife Ana de Bourbon-Parma and several Romanian culture personalities were among the audience. RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [05] Romanian - Hungarian Bilateral Cooperation

    Romanian and Hungarian Defence Ministers signed an accord on bilateral cooperation in military transportation. The agreement was signed on Saturday in the western Romanian city of Oradea. Gyorgy Keleti And Victor Babiuc will sign on February next year in Budapest the agreement over setting up the joing Romanian - Hungarian batallion. Keleti said that Hungary's admission into NATO would have a positive influence over the military cooperation between Bucharest and Budapest. RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [06] First Christmas in Romania in 50 Years

    The former King of Romania Mihai the Ist is in Romania again together with his family. The former King will spend his first Christmas holidays in Romania since the comunists drove him out of the country some half a century ago. On December 30th 1947 Mihai the Ist was forced to give up his throne. Later on the authorities have withdrawn his right to Romanian citizenship and he got it back after the ruling team that has won the November 1996 elections installed to power. Mihai the Ist accepted in 1997 the title of Romania's special Ambassador and interceded for Romania's joining NATO with the European monarchs. RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [07] Different Perspectives

    Romania's Prosecutor General Sorin Moisescu said on Friday that he fully backed Prosecutor Dan Voinea's statement that the former president of te country Ion Iliescu was involved in the the events that took place in December 1989 at the Romanian National Television station. At that time the crossfire nearby the TV station made many dead and wounded victims among both military and civilians. In the coming days the Romanian Social Democracy Party will call on the inter-parliamentary Union, the European Council and on the ambassadors of the NATO members to Bucharest to brief their state governments on the dangerous way the events in Romania have just taken. These event were caused - according to RSDP - by the frequent violation of the functioning rules of the Romanian state and by the constant political harrasment the former head of state and the oposition parties were subject to. The Social Democracy Party has announced it would not take part in the joint session of the two chambers of the Romanian Parliament due be held today as long as the uncontested leaders of the Romanian Revolution are threatened with trials and imprisonment while those who had no part in the Revolution want to change history for their own benefit.RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [08] Emergency Government Order Regarding the Revenue Tax

    The Government adopted Sunday an emergency order regarding the revenue tax, this representing the first step towards the introduction of the global revenue tax. According to this order, each person will pay the revenue tax for any activity, being excepted the activities for which the income tax or the agricultural tax is payed, the family associations developping economic activities on the bases of the free initiative according to the legislation, the associated Romanian or foreign citizens, the foreign citizens with a fix income. RRI-RADOR, December 22

    [09] Weather in Romania

    Weather in Romania will be cold and cloudy all over the country. Temperatures will range from -4 centigrades in the morning to 8 centigrades at noon. RADOR, December 22

    [10] Currency rates

    1 USD = 7,994 lei; 1 DEM = 4,518 lei; 1 CHF = 5,583 lei; 1 FRF = 1,349 lei; 1 GBP = 13,372 lei; 1 XEU = 8,930 lei. RADOR, December 22


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