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RADOR: News from Romania, 99-03-08
March 8, 1999
CONTENTS
[01] Transport Minister on Chances of a post-FESAL Agreement with the World
Bank;
[02] TUNTCD National Conference Ended;
[03] Meeting of PD Youth Organisation Leaders.
[01] Transport minister on chances of a post-FESAL agreement with the World
Bank
While back from his European and American tour on Saturday, Romanian
Transport Minister Traian Basescu has announced that a World Bank
delegation was to arrive in Bucharest next week to finalise a post-FESAL
agreement by March 26 and prepare the visit of the IMF delegation later in
April. "The IMF and the Romanian Government should reach an agreement in
May, and not in June or July as it was previously announced. Obviously, the
IMF is not hostile to Romania. The IMF is to provide us with full support
to ensure the signing of the intention letter as quick as possible in case
we finalise our post-FESAL agreement with the World Bank, and the World
Bank is absolutley determined to sign the post-FESAL agreement. There is,
of course, some reporach, which the IMF is expressing to us, but this is
not in connection with the activity of the Radu Vasile Cabinet, but related
to the general delay in implementing the structural reform in Romania, the
cumulative delays so to speak", minister Basescu pointed out.(RADOR)
[02] TUNTCD National Conference ended
The National Conference of the Christian Democrat National Peasant Students
(TUNTCD) has ended on Sunday in the mountain resort of Poiana Brasov. After
the regulations and the new body's leadership were accepted on Saturday,
with a majority of votes, the students adopted on Sunday the final
resolution of the conference. On the occasion, the TUNTCD members have
reiterated their support of the party's leadership and the PNTCD members in
the Romanian Cabinet in full compliance with the resolution of the
conference already adopted. Considering that the moral reform of the
Romanian society is still one of the PNTCD's priorities, the student
organisation is supporting the property rights on land, forests and
abusively nationalised houses as well as the right of any person to access
his personal former Securitate file. According to the resolution adopted,
the PNTCD youth is fighting for the party's unity and support the further
promotion of the traditional PNTCD policy.(RADOR)
[03] Meeting of PD Youth Organisation leaders
The young Democrats are preparing for new elections. They are expected to
represent some 25% of the PD candidates in the next general elections. At a
meeting in the Transylvanian town of Targu Mures on Sunday, the PD Youth
Organisation leadership has agreed that the party's youth should be
prepared for the election campaign in the next local elections. The PD
leaders have also decided that they should train maily the young PD members
in rural and disfavoured areas. According to PD deputy Ileana Filipescu,
the PD is to propose a draft law aimed at encouraging the young employers
as the party expects them to hire mainly young unemployed.(RADOR)
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