From: mihai@sep.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Mihai Popovici)
Subject: Romanian News 
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:34:30 GMT

I post some Romanian News articles from Mihai Sirbu.
RFE/RL stands for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.

From: msirbu@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu
Message-Id: <9208282009.AA02213@next7>
Subject: Romania/Moldova news, RFE/RL August 26, 1992


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                      RFE/RL Daily Report

                                         No. 163, August 26, 1992

POLL: ROMANIAN OPPOSITION LEADING IN FORTHCOMING BALLOT.The
Romanian Institute for Public Opinion Survey (IRSOP) released on
25 August the results of an opinion poll concerning the
forthcoming presidential and general elections.  The survey, which
had been commissioned by Reuters, shows that Romania's opposition
may lead a coalition government after elections scheduled for 27
September. According to the poll, the Democratic Convention, an
alliance of 18 parties and organizations from the opposition,
would win 28% in the vote for the parliament, ahead of the
left-wing Democratic National Salvation Front (22%).  The survey
also indicates that President Ion Iliescu, faces a tight battle
for re-election. Only 39% of the electorate appear to support him
for a second mandate. In the 1990 elections, 85% voted for
Iliescu. (Dan Ionescu)

ROMANIA INVITES FOREIGN OBSERVERS TO MONITOR ELECTIONS.  Romania's
foreign ministry has sent invitations to foreign governments,
political parties, and international human rights and labor
organizations willing to send observers to monitor the 27
September ballot. In an interview with the Bucharest daily
Adevarul, Gheorghe Tinca, an undersecretary of state at the
foreign ministry, said that the observers would be free to travel
where they wished and talk to anyone they liked. He added that his
ministry would help them make travel arrangements and set up
interviews but that Romania would not bear the costs of the
visits.  Tinca also said that the first invitation had been sent
to the CSCE Bureau for Democratic Institutions in Warsaw. (Dan
Ionescu)

ROMANIA ASKS HUNGARY TO EXTRADITE FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER.
Romania asked Hungary on 25 August to extradite retired general
Alexandru Draghici, a former boss of the Securitate political
police and an interior minister in the 1950s and 1960s.  Radio
Bucharest quoted a statement of the Ministry of Justice saying
that Draghici and his wife were believed to hide in Budapest. The
military prosecutor's office has started judicial procedures
against Draghici on homicide charges on 5 August and issued a
warrant for his arrest. (Dan Ionescu)


                                         No. 164, August 27, 1992


MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT ON RELATIONS WITH THE USA.  On 26 August,
Moldovan President Mircea Snegur received letters of accreditation
from the new US ambassador, Mary Pendleton.  During this meeting,
Snegur said that US support for Moldova "is being palpably
experienced each time a Moldovan official comes into contact with
representatives of this great state which is our friend. This
support gives us confidence that our young democracy has not been
left alone to face those who are trying to take independence and
freedom away from us before we have fully tasted either,"
according to a quote by Moldovapres. (Vladimir Socor)

MOLDOVAN-RUSSIAN TROOP TALKS POSTPONED. A preliminary round of
talks between Moldova and Russia on the status and terms for
withdrawal of Russia's troops in Moldova was held in Moscow on 12
to 14 August.  The talks were due to resume a few days thereafter
but have not been continued.  Moldovapres reported on 26 August
that the talks will continue in September.  No precise date was
given for the resumption of the talks. (Vladimir Socor)


ROMANIA'S STANCE AT THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON YUGOSLAVIA.  On 26
August acting US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagelburger informed
the London conference on Yugoslavia on Romania's decision to
accept international monitors on its territory to oversee
compliance with the embargo against Serbia and Montenegro. In
another development, Western agencies quoted Romanian foreign
minster Adrian Nastase as saying that the conference should not
try to create new international laws in seeking a solution to the
Bosnian crisis. Nastase insisted that any measures decided upon in
London should be one-time solutions.  Romania delegates later said
that Nastase was referring to the principles on the status of the
minorities. (Dan Ionescu).

ROMANIAN NATIONALIST MAYOR REGISTERS AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. On
26 August, the controversial Cluj mayor Gheorghe Funar registered
with the authorities as a candidate in the 27 September
presidential elections. Funar runs on the ticket of the extreme
nationalist Party of Romanian National Unity. In an interview with
Radio Bucharest, Funar said that he hoped to win the elections on
the first ballot, claiming that "at least ten million Romanians"
supported him. (Dan Ionescu)


ROMANIAN, MOLDOVAN PRESIDENTS TO MEET ON 28 AUGUST.  The
presidents of Romania and Moldova, Ion Iliescu and Mircea Snegur,
will meet in the Romanian town of Husi on 28 August. Radio
Bucharest said that they would discuss mutual interests, without
elaborating.  Moldovan Prime M'inister Andrei Sangheli visited
Romania on 18 and 19 August, and signed several agreements,
including one on mutual economic cooperation. (Dan Ionescu)

[As of 1200 CET]
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