From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Romania/Moldova News from RFE/RL, 28 Jan 1993
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:34:16 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report          No. 18, 28 January 1993

SERBIAN TUGS DEFY ORDERS TO STOP. In a statement released on 27
January and carried by Rompres, the Romanian government said it
has ordered authorities to take all measures provided for by the
resolutions of the UN Security Council, including measures of
constraint in order to stop the Serbian barges carrying fuel up
the Danube.  The statement said the government will seek CSCE and
Security Council assistance in acquiring the technical means to
enforce the embargo. According to Reuters, however, government
spokeswoman Doina Jalea said Romania does not support the use of
force against the Serbian barges.  Meanwhile, Romanian TV said on
27 January that four Serbian tugboats pulling barges continue to
defy Romanian orders to stop and are heading towards Serbia. One
convoy has already reached the Serbian section of the Danube.
Meanwhile, in a Foreign Ministry statement on 27 January, Bulgaria
declared that it can not halt sanction-breakers without Romanian
assistance.  BTA reports that Bulgarian and Romanian customs
officials had conferred two days earlier in Vidin, only to
establish that both sides lack the means to halt the barges by
force.  Michael Shafir and Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL, Inc.

SPIROIU ON RELATIONS WITH HUNGARIAN ARMY. Romanian National
Defense Minister Nicolae Spiroiu says his ministry and the
Hungarian Defense Ministry both express a desire to cooperate in
ironing out trouble spots between the two countries.  In an
interview with RFE/RL on 27 January, Spiroiu said they hope to set
an example for political relations between the two states.  A
Hungarian Foreign Ministry delegation is currently in Bucharest
conducting talks on a bilateral treaty.  Michael Shafir, RFE/RL,
Inc.

MORE ON ABKHAZIA-"DNIESTER" ALLIANCE. Valid for 10 years, the
Abkhazia-"Dniester" treaty of friendship and cooperation provides
inter alia that "in the event of a threat of military attack
against either of them, the sides will immediately consult with a
view to taking measures to repel the aggression," Basapress and
ITAR-TASS reported on 26 January. The "Dniester republic Supreme
Soviet" ratified the treaty that day, in the presence of a
delegation of hard-line deputies of the Russian Supreme Soviet,
Izvestia reported on 26 January. Moldovan Parliament Vice-Chairman
Victor Puscasu told ITAR-TASS on 25 January and Interfax on the
27th that the move is intended by proimperial circles in Moscow to
undermine Moldova and Georgia, and that these two countries are
not about to violate international law by making pacts [against
Russia] with, for example, Chechnya or Tatarstan.  Vladimir Socor
, RFE/RL, Inc.

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