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RADOR: News from Romania, 98-06-26

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

June 26, 1998


CONTENTS

  • [01] Solemn Session in Parliament;
  • [02] Romanian Government Entitled to Issue Ordinances;
  • [03] Other Senate Proceedings;
  • [04] Cabinet Meeting;
  • [05] Helath Minister Dismissed;
  • [06] PNL Leadership Believes a Hungarian University May Be Set Up;
  • [07] PD Vicepresident Alexandru Sassu Believes That Laws Should Be Drawn Up to Support Reform;
  • [08] PSDR Press Conference;
  • [09] "The Star of Romania";
  • [10] Romania's Request to the Council of Europe.
  • [11] Closing Session of OCEMN Parliamentary Assembly.

  • [01] Solemn session in Parliament

    The senators and the deputies have attended a joint solemn session on Thursday commemorating the 150-th anniversary of the 1848 Revolution in Romania along with the Day of Romania's National Anthem. The Romanian MPs paid their tribute to the '48 revolutionaries pointing out that the 1848 Revolution prepared the way to the Great Union in 1918 and it was essential for clearly defining the national identity of the Romanian people. The speakersJhave mentioned that the 1848 Revolution was only the begininning in Romania's establishment as a single united state and its European integration process. Romanian President Emil Constantinescu has also attended the ceremony. RADOR

    [02] Romanian Government entitled to issue ordonances

    At its session on Thursday, the Romanian Senate has adopted the draft lwa allowing the Romanian Government to issue ordinances during the MPs' holiday. 75 senators have voted for the draft law while the senators representing the opposition Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR) have left the room as none of the bills they proposed was accepted. PDSR MPs have also claimed that the Romanian Government was allowed to issue ordonances on too many issues and some general stipulations could lead to confusion. PDSR Senator Ion Predescu said the ruling parties were trying to amend organic laws by issuing emergency ordinances - a procedure which, in his opinion, violated the Constitution. The Greater RomanJa Party (PRM) has also joined the PDSR protest, though the party did not appoint a representative in the mediation commission. RADOR

    [03] Other Senate proceedings

    With 109 votes for and 7 against, the Romanian Senate has adopted on Thursday the draft law allowing civil access to former Securitate files and disclosing the former communist secret service as political police. The article 22, under debate for some weeks, was adopted according to the proposal submitted by the legal commission. Consequently, the archives can be examined by the board of the Council for studies of former Securitate archives while their custody goes to the institutions that already have such documents. Senator Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu has left the room and said he denounced the initiative of the draft law. RADOR

    [04] Cabinet meeting

    The Romanian Government has adopted on Thursday the draft law concerning the public pension system and other social securities. The Cabinet has also adopted the emergency ordJnance allowing the return of all real estates previously belonging to Romania's national minorities. There are 17 buildings which were confiscated by force or nationalised since 1940. Another government decision referres to the setting up of a commission to evaluate the virtual establishment of a Hungarian language teaching state university. Recent developments in the regions affected by floods in May 20- June 22 were also under debate. The talks are expected to continue at an extraordinary meeting next Monday. RADOR

    [05] Health minister dismissed

    Romanian Government spokesman Rasvan Popescu has announced the Health Minister Francisc Batany was dismissed following a proposal of Prime Minister Rad Vasile. Justice Minister Valeriu Stoica was appointed as acting health minister as he was coordinating all budget-running ministries. The spokesman informed that all the ministers, Prime Minister Radu Vasile included, submitted affidavis concerning their relationship with the former SecuriJate. Youth and Sports Minister Crins Antonescu and MApN State Secretary Constantin Dudu Ionescu did not submit such documents as they were travelling abroad. Mr Popescu has also announced the Water, Forest and Environment Minister Romica Tomescu, now on a visit to Denmark, was ordered back to Romania in order to coordinate the evaluation of dammages caused by recent floods. The results are to be examined at an extraodinary meeting next Monday. RADOR

    [06] PNL leadership believes a Hungarian university may be set up

    The leadership of the National Liberal Party (PNL) believes there is no obstacle to prevent the setting up of a Hungarian university in Romania. PNL First Vicepresident Valeriu Stoica told a press conference on Thursday that a decisiom could be made when the government would receive the report on the matter. Mr Stoica however stopped short of announcing a date for the move as the government did not make its decision yet. RADOR

    [07] PD Vicepresident Alexandru Sassu believes thJt laws should be drawn up to support the reform

    The Vicepresident of the Democratic Party (PD), Alexandru Sassu, has expressed the hope that the extraordinary session in Parliament (between July 3-6) could allow the adoption of some draft laws which, he believed, were essential for the reform. At a press conference on Thursday, MrSassu said laws on public property rights and their legal framework, regional development as well as the project of the National Housing Agency were essential for achieving restructuring. The PD leader has insisted that the setting up of the National Energy Company (the RENEL restructuring included) was of major importance, and mentioned that the draft law is delayed despite its submission on June 16. Therefore, Mr Sassu fears that the law is not supposed to be adopted during the July session. The PD leader does not rule out the possibility that the government may use its right of issuing emergency ordinances to hurry up its adoption. RADOR

    [08] PSDR press conference

    The Romanian Social Democrat Party (PSDR) has expressed its solidarity with the people in the areas affected by floods. PSDR First Vicepresident Emil Putin told a press conference on Thursday that each PSDR MP is to pay out 300,000 lei to support the people affected. PSDR supports the proposal by Romanians' National Unity Party (PUNR) recommending that half of investments in parliament offices may be given to the victims of floods. The RRA reports that the PSDR Executive Bureau has ordered its members to submit affidavis concerning their alleged former Securitate activity by July 15. Mr Putin has warned that those who submitted fake affidavis were to be excluded from the party. Referring to recent claims by the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), PSDR believed the setting up of a Hungarian language speaking state university was unsuitable but a multicultural university might be the best choice. RADOR

    [09] "The Star of Romania"

    At its meeting on ThJrsday, the Romanian Government has adopted an emergency ordinance establishing "The Star of Romania" as the highest Romanian Order to honour best civil and military services to the State and the Romanian people. Foreign citizens may also be awarded for their outstanding contribution to improving cooperation and friendship relations between Romania and other countries or for exceptional merits in serving the State and the Romanian people. The Romanian citizens may be awarded once in a year, on December 1 - Romania's National Day. RADOR

    [10] Romania's request to the Council of Europe

    The Social Development Fund of the Council of Europe may grant an aid to Romania in an attempt to cover some of the dammages following recent floods. The Vicepresident of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Senator Cristian Dumitrescu has asked on Thursday the Fund's president Giorgio Ratti to grant Romania a 50 MECU aid (some 75 million dollars) from its special fund destined to natural disasJers. As the RRA correspondent in Strasbourg reports, the low interest loan may reach Romania in around two months and it should be paid back after a five- year pardon. RADOR

    [11] Closing session of OCEMN Parliamentary Assembly

    The 11-th session of the OCEMN Parliamentary Assembly has ended on Thursday at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest. Participants included representatives in the 11 member countries of the Organisation for Black Sea Economic Cooperation (OCEMN). At the end of the two-day meeting, OCEMN MPs have adopted some recommandations the OCEMN government board was expected to examine and approve in the very next future. Most of them refer to the setting up of a free trade area around the Black Sea and a regional stock exchange for oil and food products in the Romanian port of Constantza. The speaker of the Romanian Senate, Petre Roman, told a press conference that he sent a letter to each head of government in the EU Member States as well as to the president of the EuropJan Commission. He has urged the EU and the European Commission to draw up strategies for developing an economic area around the Black Sea. Mr Roman has expressed the hope that Romania would be part of the oil route connecting the Caspian Sea to the Western Europe. The MPs in the 11 OCEMN countries have decided that the next session of the OCEMN Parliamentary Assembly was to take place in the Russian town of St. Petersburg between December 8-10. RADOR
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