RADOR: News from Romania, 98-10-13

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October 13, 1998

CONTENTS

[01] Romania and the Crisis in Kosovo;

[02] Balkan States Summit in Antalya;

[03] Serbian Minority against Romania's Support of NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia;

[04] Romania's Serbian Union Leader on Romanian-Yugoslav Relations;

[05] MApN Senior Adviser General Cornel Codita on Kosovo Crisis;

[06] Romanian Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu on a Visit to Hungary;

[07] The Local Council of the City of Craiova at the European Congress of Associate Cities.

[01] Romania and the crisis in Kosovo

"I wish to believe that Romania's Supreme Council of Defence (CSAT) will change the decision it made yesterday (ed.n. Sunday) in the common interest and the friendly tradition existing between our countries. As during the war, Marshall Antonescu did not allow armed attacks against Yugoslavia from the Romanian territory, I cannot imagine, and I repeat, I cannot believe that now, at peace time, everything is to be different", YugosOavia's ambassador to Bucharest Desimir Jevtic said. The statement was made following Romania's Supreme Council of Defence decision to allow NATO forces the access to Romania's airspace in case a special situation occured. RADOR

PNTCD leadership welcomes CSAT decision

At a press conference in Bucharest on Monday, the leadership of the ruling Christian Democrat National Pasant Party (PNTCD) said the decision of CSAT concerning the Kosovo crisis broke neither the Treaty of Friendship between Romania and Yugoslavia nor the Partnership for Peace. Consequently, the PNTCD believes the CSAT decision answered Romania's national interests and the party will express the support of it in parliament. PNTCD president Ion Diaconescu told the press conference that the resolution was to be submitted to vote by parliament on October 14. He recalled that Romania was to participate in humanitarian activities as the country was not a NATO member and therefore, it was not to get involved in militOry operations in Kosovo. RADOR

Statement of the PDSR Central Executive Bureau

A communique issued by the Central Executive Bureau of the Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR) says the CSAT on Sunday was against Romania's national interests and the principles of international law. PDSR believes that the CSAT announcement should explicitly point out that Romania was not getting militarily involved nor was it providing any facility in this respect. And more, such words as "emergency and unexpected situations" should be explained very clearly. PDSR's Central Executive Bureau believes that all sides who might get involved in the conflict, the Serbian side included, should be allowed access to Romania's airspace. PDSR is against the use of force against civilians in Kosovo and believes that a military intervention was not expected to solve the complex situation in the Serbian province as nor was it supposed to solve the humanitarian situation in the region. the communique coOcludes that an emergency session in parliament should be called to establish our country's position on the conflict in Kosovo and address all NATO member states to express Romania's opposition to any military intervention in the province. RADOR

Communique issued by Vatra Romaneasca Union

The Vatra Romaneasca Union is rejecting Romania's any sort of involvement in the conflict over Yugoslavia's soverignty. The statement belongs to the Vatra Romaneasca's Coordinating Committee in Cluj-Napoca. The communique says that any attempt to justify NATO's intervention plan concerning the Kosovo crisis was not expected to convince anybody and cannot change the meaning and significance of a declaration of war against the Serbian people, Romania's oldest and most sincere ally. The CSAT declaration is complicating things and may result in unexpected consequences for all the sides involved. It was only Romania's Parliament who was entitled to make a decision on the matter as the parliament waO not supposed to be a body whose only right was to share the presdidential opinion, the Vatra Romaneasca Union communique concludes. RADOR

[02] Balkan states summit in Antalya

While attending the meeting of heads of states and governments in South- East Europe, Prime Minister Radu Vasile told the Romanian journalists that, much Oo his surprise, the Yugoslav delegation accepted the UN Security Coouncil 1199 Resolution and the Kosovo crisis issue as parts of the joint declaration to be announced at the end of the meeting. The prime minister added that the Yugoslav delegation also accepted Romania's position on the matter. The prime minister has actually reiterated Romania's position during the second part of the meeting. He said Romania reiterated its support of a peaceful solution to the crisis in Kosovo. The Romanian delegation has insisted that the final declaration should mention that Yugoslavia and Albania have both accepted the UN resolution. RADOR

[03] Serbian minority against Romania's support of NATO intervention in Yugoslavia

[04] Romania's Serbian Union leader on Romanian-Yugoslav relations

[05] MApN senior adviser General Cornel Codita on Kosovo crisis

[06] Romanian Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu on a visit to Hungary

Romanian Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu said in an interview that relations between Budapest and Bucharest proceeded at a normal pace after the new Hungarian government came to power. As far as the controversial issue of the Hungarian teaching state university was concerned, he said the matter had no damaging effect on bilateral relations. The head of the Romanian diplomacy believes the Hungarian government's interest in the Hungarian community living in Romania is absolutely normal as the Romanian government is also expressing its interest in the Romanian communities living abroad. The Romanian ministerOhas praised both the Hungarian government for letting the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarian in Romania (UDMR) to make its own political decision and the UDMR for its acceptance of the compromise concerning the setting up of the multicultural university. RADOR

[07] The Local Council of the City of Craiova at the European Congress of Associate Cities

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