From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 28 dec 1992
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:51:29 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report              No. 247, 28 December 1992

MOLDOVAN BACKLASH AGAINST ROMANIAN CALLS FOR UNIFICATION.
Addressing Moldova's Parliament on 24 December, President Mircea
Snegur decried the recent statements of Romanian officials and of
the opposition Moldovan Popular Front pressing for
Romanian-Moldovan unification.  Describing these statements as "a
campaign against Moldovan statehood," Snegur implied that Moldova
should hold a referendum over the question of independent
statehood vs. unification with Romania. The parliament's Vice
Chairman, Victor Puscasu, who is an organizer of the pro-Snegur,
pro-independence and anti-unification Moldovan Republican Party,
told Interfax on 27 December that a referendum should be held
shortly. Such a referendum has long been advocated by
anti-unification Moldovan groups and is being opposed by the
pro-unification Popular Front.  (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIA TO RELEASE EMPTY YUGOSLAV VESSELS.  Radio Bucharest
announced on 24 December that Romania will release all those
vessels belonging to rump Yugoslavia which were sailing without
cargoes and which were halted in Danube ports in the past month in
observance of UN sanctions. The radio carried a statement by the
Foreign Ministry saying the release of the vessels is in line with
a decision adopted by the UN sanctions committee at Bucharest's
request.  Romania has been complaining that its Danube ports are
jammed. The ministry statement said nothing about the fate of the
rump Yugoslav and other vessels carrying goods and detained by
Romania.  (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.).

MICHAEL CANCELS VISIT. In a press release on 23 December Romania's
exiled King Michael announced that he has been forced "to
postpone" his planned Christmas visit to Romania. The statement
said the authorities in Bucharest imposed unacceptable conditions
at the last minute.  Among other things, they demanded that the
king formally recognize the country's republican institutions and
submit to a body search at the border; the statement called these
"neo-Stalinist methods." Romanian TV carried the text of the
message on 23 December. The following day the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs denied that new conditions had been imposed for the king's
visit, apart from insistence that it be "of a private character,"
but admitted that officials had discussed with a representative of
the king what were called "problems concerning the regulation of
the king's citizenship and his ties with the Romanian state."
(Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

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