From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 11/12/92
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:52:37 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report               No. 219, 12 November 1992

MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT IN CHINA. On a tour of China and several CIS
states of Central Asia, Moldovan President Mircea Snegur completed
on 10 November a five day visit to China during which he conferred
with President Yang Shangkun, Prime Minister Li Peng, and other
Beijing officials, and visited free enterprise zones in Shanghai
and elsewhere.  Agreements were signed on economic cooperation,
primarily involving agriculture, and on the opening of a
Chisinau-Beijing air route, Moldovapres reported.  Snegur told
Moldovapres that China supported Moldova's demand for the
withdrawal of Russia's army from Moldova. Foreign Minister Nicolae
Tiu, who accompanied Snegur, told Moldovapres that the visit
reflected the fact that China had been the first major Asian state
to have recognized and established diplomatic relations with
Moldova, and that Moldova would next approach Japan and South
Korea. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

MOLDOVA WANTS NATO INVOLVEMENT IN DNIESTER SETTLEMENT.  Mircea
Snegur's military counsellor, Colonel Nicolae Chirtoaca, told the
Moldovan media on November 9 that he had briefed a meeting of
NATO's Political and Military Committees, just held in Brussels, on
the current situation in the Dniester conflict. He welcomed what he
described as the Committees' intention to send observers to the
scene and to offer proposals toward a political settlement in
accordance with international law and the CSCE principles. If the
conflict is to be settled, Chirtoaca said, it is essential to
enlarge the existing negotiating framework, i.e. the bilateral
Moldovan-Russian framework which Moldova accepted in July under
Russian military and economic pressure. Moldova has since made
repeated efforts to involve CSCE and UN mechanisms in the
peacekeeping operation and in negotiations toward a political
settlement. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

STOLOJAN PRESENTS HIS RECORD TO THE SENATE.  Outgoing Prime
Minister Theodor Stolojan presented to the Senate on 11 November
the record of the cabinet he headed between October 1991 and
October 1992.  In a speech broadcast live on Radio Bucharest,
Stolojan said his government focused on economic stability and the
continuation of market reforms. He pointed out that industrial
production recorded growth in October for the third consecutive
month after more than two years of stagnation and decline. He also
said exports are increasing (though, he added, it is not certain
whether this growth reflects increase in productivity or merely
allocation of more resources) and energy supplies are higher than
at this time last year.  (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

BACKING FOR LAW BANNING ANTI-SEMITISM GAINS SUPPORT IN ROMANIA.
Rabbi Moses Rosen, leader of Romania's Jewish community, said on 11
November that Adrian Nastase, vice president of the Democratic
National Salvation Front, has agreed to support a proposed law that
would make anti-Semitism a crime, Reuters reports from Bucharest.
Nastase holds the position of Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies.
(Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

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