From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 12/10/92
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:31:13 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report                   No. 237, 10 December 1992

MORE FALLOUT IN MOLDOVA FROM ROMANIAN CALLS FOR UNIFICATION.
Interviewed by Moldovan Radio on 8 December, Moldovan President
Mircea Snegur again rebutted the recent remarks by Romanian Foreign
Ministry officials anticipating Romanian-Moldovan unification.
Reiterating his government's determination to "consolidate Moldovan
independent statehood," Snegur said that the Romanian officials'
remarks "are probably aimed at discouraging potential foreign
investors" in Moldova. In Bucharest, the Romanian Foreign
Ministry's spokeswoman was cited by ITAR-TASS as telling
journalists that "the Romanian side can not be blamed for a
possible deterioration in [Romanian-Moldovan] bilateral relations"
and that Romania "hopes that its efforts to develop relations with
Moldova will be met with the necessary understanding" by the
Moldovan government. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIAN PRINTERS ON STRIKE. The printers' trade union declared a
one-day warning strike on 9 December, Radio Bucharest reports.
Dailies and weeklies due out on the 10th will not be printed. The
union said that if its demands for the doubling of salaries and
better working conditions are not met, a one-week strike to begin
on 16 December will be declared .  (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIA, HUNGARY AND THE EXTRADITION OF DRAGHICI.  Romanian
Prosecutor-General Mihai Ulpiu Popa Cherecheanu now admits that
Hungary did not actually refuse to extradite former Romanian
Interior Minister Alexandru Draghici, but asked for additional
information in order to make its decision. In an interview
broadcast on Radio Bucharest on 9 December Cherecheanu said Romania
will provide the requested information.  One day earlier the
Ministry of Justice had claimed that Hungary had turned down the
request, but the claim was denied in Budapest.  (Michael Shafir,
RFE/RL, Inc.)

ETHNIC HUNGARIANS IN ROMANIA PROTEST AGAINST FUNAR.  The Hungarian
Democratic Federation of Romania issued a statement protesting
against the latest measures by the Romanian nationalist mayor of
Cluj, Gheorghe Funar, Western agencies reported on 9 December.  The
protest expressed anger against "the illegal decisions of the
mayor, and mainly against the incitement to aggression against the
monument to King Mathias." The HDFR says that "if legality is not
restored and if the government fails to condemn the mayor's
anti-Hungarian provocations," it will be forced to seek protection
from the European Parliament and the United Nations.  (Michael
Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT APPEALS TO ROMANIA. The Foreign Relations
Committee of parliament sent a letter to its counterpart in
Romania, expressing concern about the recent anti-Hungarian events
in Cluj, MTI reported on 9 November.  The committee said that it
hopes that problems can be solved in spirit of good neighborliness
and European values.  The committee also expressed the hope that
the political forces behind the recent ethnic tensions in Cluj will
not hamper Romania's European integration. (Karoly Okolicsanyi,
RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIA SEEKS TO IMPROVE IMAGE ABROAD. Romania has hired the
British advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi to improve the
country's image and help attract foreign investors.  Dana Simion of
Romania's National Agency for Privatization told Reuters on 9
December that the British firm won the bid for a public relations
project to begin this month. The project will cost more than one
million dollars and will be financed by funds from the European
Community.  Among other things, the project will publicize
Romania's plans to privatize more than 6,000 state enterprises.
(Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

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