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RADOR: News from Romania, 99-02-10
February 10, 1999
CONTENTS
[01] Meeting at the Romanian Institute for Human Rights;
[02] Romanian Prime Minister Radu Vasile on a Visit to Hungary;
- Romanian-Hungarian Summit in Budapest,
- Radu Vasile-Arpad Goncz Meeting as Reported by Romanian Government
Spokeswoman Adriana Saftoiu;
[03] No Surprise for MAE;
[04] Debates in Parliament on Draft Budget;
[05] Justice Ministry Rejects CV Tudor's Allegations;
[06] Survey of Police Inspectorates in Western Romanian Counties.
[01] Meeting at the Romanian Institute for Human Rights
Debates on human rights and minority rights mainly have been taking place
at the Romanian Insitute for Human Rights on Tuesday. Participants included
Dusan Janjic, president of the Ethnic Relations Forum in Belgrade, Otto
Weber, chief commissioner for human rights, religious groups and national
minorities affairs in Romania's House of Deputies along with other human
rights experts. The talks focused on issues concerning bilateral and
international co-operation in public and ethnic relations, the minority
rights (the Yugoslav Romanians included) and possible connections between
such issues and territorial matters. RADOR
[02] Romanian Prime Minister Radu Vasile on a visit to Hungary
Romanian-Hungarian summit in Budapest
While in Budapest on Tuesday evening, Romanian Prime Minister Radu Vasile
had separate talks with Hungarian President Arpad Goncz and the Speaker of
the Hungarian National Assembly, Ader Janos. The Hungarian president has
assued the Romanian prime minister that Hungary was not expected to turn
into a Schengen pillar shutting the door into its eastern neighbours' face
when the country would become a NATO member. Mr Goncz said that, in his
opinion, most of the conditions in the basic Treaty between the two
countries were already met. The Romanian prime minister's agenda also
included a wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial in Budapest's Heroes
Plaza, and a visit to the Gojdu Foundation. Another wreath-laying ceremony
was reported at the cemetery in the memory of the Romanian soldiers who
died for Budapest's liberation during the WW II. Also on Tuesday afternoon,
the Romanian prime minister had another round of separate talks with the
transport and agriculture ministers of the two countries. RADOR
Radu-Vasile-Arpad Goncz meeting as reported by Romanian Government
spokeswoman Adriana Saftoiu
Romanian Government spokeswoman Adriana Saftoiu told a press conference
that, at the talks on Tuesday, Prime Minister Radu Vasile and Hungarian
President Arpad Goncz reviewed some of the issues formerly discussed in the
morning with Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Hungarian president said that
Romania and Hungary never shared the same interests as they did nowadays.
He said that the Romanian government should stay in power and achieve the
reforms Romania needed. RADOR
[03] No surprise for MAE
While attending a Defence Forum in Munich, German Chacellor Gerhard
Schroder said recently that participants in the NATO summit in Washington
next April should not invite new candidates to join the Alliance. Referring
to the statement, Mrs Elena Zamfirescu, state secretary with Romania's
Foreign Ministry (MAE), said she should first examine it carefully. However,
the Romanian side is not surprised as most NATO capitals already indicated
that there was little hope for the Washington summit to invite new
candidates to join the Alliance. In an interview with the Romanian media,
Mrs Zamfirescu said Romania was however waiting for a better solution in
case the best solution was not available. RADOR
[04] Debates in parliament on draft Budget
Debates have continued in parliament on Tuesday about the draft Budget and
the social insurance financing. The talks focused on the spendings' regime
and distribution as stipulated in the 1999 Budget. The paragraph 1 in the
Art. 9 was adopted while the paragraph 2 in the same article has been
subject to further debates. The paragraph 1 says that the main credit co-
ordinators are to decide the number of jobs, the basic salaries, managerial
indemnities and other emoluments in the legal pay system and make them
comply with the personnel spendings already approved for this year. The
paragraph 2 says that the 1999 indexation should be lower than the
estimated raise in the consumer prices. RADOR
[05] Justice Ministry rejects CV Tudor's allegations
The Romanian Justice Ministry has rejected as calumnies recent allegations
made by Corneliu Vadim Tudor, the leader of the Greater Romania Party (PRM)
at his party's press conference on February 5. A communique issued by the
ministry's press office says that Justice Minister Valeriu Stoica has never
ordered a file to be destroyed and no ministry official was in Arad when,
according to senator CV Tudor, the justice minister gave that order. The
file on the Turkish citizen Hasem Kara is now subject to an inquiry at a
court in Arad as it disappeared during the trial, and the County Attorney's
Office was ordered to open an inquiry into the matter. The communique also
denies that the missing file cannot be restored because, according to the
same source, original copies were preserved and the file can be restored
entirely. RADOR
[06] Survey of police inspectorates in western Romanian counties
A survey of police inspectorates in western Romanian counties was carried
out at the PETROM headquarters in Timisoara on Tuesday morning in the
presence of Romania's Interior Minister Constantin Dudu Ionescu.
Participants included police chiefs and prefects of the counties of Arad,
Bihor, Caras-Severin, Hunedoara and Timis. The meeting is part of a
national programme designed to examine the activity of the Interior
Ministry (MI) personnel in the country. RADOR
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