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RADOR: News from Romania, 99-01-14
January 14, 1999
CONTENTS
[01] Debates on Draft Laws;
[02] Senator CV Tudor Is Involved in 11 Criminal Files;
[03] National Forum of Revolutionary Bodies;
[04] Revolutionary Dumitru Dinca on Hunger Strike;
[05] Further Information on Taxes;
[06] Press Conference at the BNS Headquarters;
[07] Cozma's Warning to the Army and the Geandarmerie;
[08] News from Petrosani;
[09] Statement of CNH Spokesman;
[10] Industry and Trade Minister's Announcement to Mining Trade Unions
Confederation;
[11] Statement of Prime Minister Radu Vasile;
[12] Romanian Foreign Ministry Communique;
[13] Yugoslavia Rejected Romania's Participation in the Kosovo Monitoring
Mission.
[01] Debates on draft laws
At a session on Wednesday, the Commission for local public administration
and habitat in the House of Deputies has started the debates on its draft
budget for 1999. In the presence of Romania's Environment Minister Romica
Tomescu, the commission has also discussed the draft law on the setting up
of the National Council for Environment and Viable Development. The Council
is expected to carry out the implementation of the objectives and
recommendations stipulated in the Agenda 21 - the document adopted at the
UN Conference for Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro seven years
ago (1992). RADOR
[02] Senator CV Tudor is involved in 11 criminal files
The Attorney's Office with the Supreme Court of Justice has announced that
11 criminal files were sent to the Justice Ministry. The Office also
confirmed its request for the lifting of senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor's
parliamentary immunity. The senator is accused of calumny against
politicians and journalists such as Romania's President Emil Constantinescu,
Interior Minister Gavril Dejeu, Gen. Ion Pitulescu and senator Constantin
Ticu Dumitrescu. The Attorney's Office is still to finalise another seven
criminal files against the leader of the Greater Romania Party (PRM).
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[03] National Forum of revolutionary bodies
At their National Forum in Bucharest on Tuesday, the revolutionary bodies
in Romania have called on Romania's Parliament, Presidency and Government
to recognise the validity of the certificates and licences issued according
to Law 42/1990. The authorities are also asked to issue licences for all
civilians ownining revolutionary certificates as well as certificates for
all who registered their files already recognised by legal organisations,
associations and commissions. In a communique issued to the press, the
revolutionary bodies say they recognise the Parliamentary Commission
monitoring the implementation of the Law 42/1990 and they ask the
commission to assume responsability and achieve its objectives. RADOR
[04] Revolutionary Dumitru Dinca on hunger strike
Dumitru Dinca, one of the most active participants in the revolution of
December '89, has started a hunger strike on Wednesday in the University
Plaza of Bucharest. He told a news agency that he made his decision because
the authorities "stopped still short of telling the truth about the
Romanian revolution". Mr Dinca urges the authorities to withdraw the title
of hero who went to Gen. Vasile Milea after his death and open the
procedures to detect and punish the fake revolutionaries. Dumitru Dinca
said he was trying to persuade the officials and make them step up
investigating the people who allegedly repressed the revolution in December
'89. RADOR
[05] Further information on taxes
The land and house owners should complete and submit their property
statements to the Financial Administrations by the end of this month. The
announcement was made on Wenesday by George Marinescu, the head of the
direct tax Department with the Finance Ministry. The people who are exempt
from such taxes make no exception. The deadline cannot be delayed because
it is only the parliament who has the right to amend the Emergency
Ordinance 62 on duties and local taxes, and the next session in parliament
opens on February 1. The owners who do not comply are subject to penalties
of 300,000 to 750,000 lei. The financial administrations are open from
Monday to Saturday between 8 AM and 6 PM, and on Sundays between 8 AM and 2
PM. RADOR
[06] Press conference at the BNS headquarters
At a press conference at the BNS ( ed.n. National Trade Union Block)
headquarters on Wednesday, the Trade Unions Federation in Romania's Finance
Ministry has announced it is considering the procedures to open the work
conflict on national scale including the fiscal system, financial
directorates, treasuries, the Financial Guard and the customs. Trade union
leader Vasile Marica said the strike would start as a protest against the
net salary average of 750,000 lei, the decision to ban auditing services
for the employees who got auditor licence and the breaking of the working
contracts. RADOR
[07] Cozma's warning to the Army and the Geandarmerie
While addressing the strikers in front of the National Mineral Coal Company
(CNH) in Petrosani on Wednesday, the miners' trade union leader Miron Cozma
said he was disappointed and surprised by the measures of Interior Minister
Gavril Dejeu. He wondered who gave him the right to use bullits against the
demonstrators who did nothing but asking for their rights. Mr Cozma has
warned both the Army and the Geandarmerie they were to pay for what they
were going to do, if not now, then maybe in the future. The miners' leader
called on domestic and international bodie to publicly condemn minister
Dejeu.
"The Metal Mountains" Mining Trade Unions Federation has also expressed its
protest in the central and local press. They condemned minister Dejeu for
his decision to use weapons in case the miners were to leave Petrosani for
Bucharest. Their protest is based on two articles in Romania's
Constitution: the right to free movement and the freedom of speech. RADOR
[08] News from Petrosani
After marching down the main streets of Petrosani, the miners in the Jiu
Valley have ended the protest actions they planned on Wednesday. Some of
them went to the mines to get their pay while others went home as they were
to get their pay on Thursday. And also on Thursday morning, at 7 AM, the
miners are to meet the trade union leaders and consider an end to strike
actions. They will also decide if their trip to Bucharest will take place
as planned. RADOR
[09] Statement of CNH spokesman
The CNH spokesman in the Jiu Valley, Valeriu Budulescu, said the mining
facilities were rather good and there were no dangerous gas leakes as the
air conditioning worked efficiently during the strike. At the same time,
CONEL kept the promise made to the State Secretary with the Ministry and
Trade, Nicolae Staiculescu, and granted 15 billion lei in a CONEL account.
Mr Budulescu expressed the hope that the CONEL debt to the CNH would be
paid back soon and this would help the CNH to get out of the crisis. The
spokesman said the miners got their salaries as planned, on Tuesday and
Wednesday. RADOR
[10] Industry and trade minister's announcement to Mining Trade Unions
Confederation
In a communique issued to the Mining Trade Unions Confederation on
Wednesday, Industry and Trade Minister Radu Berceanu says he has received
the letter of confederation leader Vlad Badarca proposing the resumption of
the dialogue to end the crisis in the Jiu Valley. As minister Radu Berceanu
was on a visit to Japan, he, and the prime minister as well, appointed
State Secretary Nicolae Staiculescu to continue the dialogue with the
miners. Minister Berceanu says his ministry is still open to dialogue
starting from Wednesday afternoon. He announced that journalists were
allowed to attend the meetings in order to prevent any distorted
information. RADOR
[11] Statement of Prime Minister Radu Vasile
Floarea Comsa, State Secretary with Romania's National Education Ministry
(MEN), said Prime Minister Radu Vasile promised on Tuesday that all
educational personnel was to get their January pay as planned. The RRA
reports that, also in January, the ministry was expected to pay the 13-th
salary but, according to the same source, the prime minister stopped short
of making any comment about the matter. RADOR
[12] Romanian Foreign Ministry communique
The Romanian Foreign Ministry has announced that on Tuesday it contacted by
phone the crew members of the "Bahari Hindi" ship that is being held
hostage near the Somali coast. As Romania has no embassy in Somalia the
Romanian Ambassy to Kenya was called to keep contact with the Romanian crew
members. According to an information received on Wednesday morning, the 3
Romanian crew members are safe and they are expecting the results of the
negotiations. Italy's honorary Consul to Kenya who is involved in the
negotiations and one of the ship's managers have said that there is hope
for the negotiations to end soon - RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI reported.
RADOR
[13] Yugoslavia rejected Romania's participation in the Kosovo monitoring
mission
While in Bucharest the British Defence Secretary George Robertson has said
that Yugoslav authorities have rejected participation of Romania and other
Kosovo neighboring countries in the OSCE Kosovo monitoring mission. RADOR
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