From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 11/17/92
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:14:39 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report               No. 222, 17 November 1992

MOLDOVA ON UKRAINE'S CONCERN OVER RUSSIAN FORCES IN MOLDOVA.
Writing in Nezavisimaya Moldova of 14 November on Ukrainian
President Leonid Kravchuk's recent visit to Moldova, the Moldovan
President's adviser Vadim Malakhov noted Kiev's concern over the
"Dniester republic" possibly seceding from Moldova. That would
enable Russia to keep its 14th Army there indefinitely and to send
in additional forces.  Ukraine views the "Dniester republic" as "a
forward base for Russian aggression" and has accordingly concluded
that its own interests require it to support Moldova's territorial
integrity.  The thrust of Ukraine's policy in the Dniester area in
the period ahead will to work against Russia's influence there,
Malaakhov said, as cited by Moldovan media and by Ekho Moskvy.
(Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

"DNIESTER" LEADER, RUSSIAN MILITARY DIGGING IN. "Dniester republic
president" Igor Smirnov told Reuters on 15 November that his
would-be state continued to support the ideas of "the Great
October Revolution." Should hostilities resume, Russia's 14th Army
and other, unspecified forces, will "knock Moldova around a bit,"
Smirnov said.  The 14th Army's commander, Lt.  General Aleksandr
Lebed, launched a recruiting drive for his Army in the "Dniester
republic," the Moldovan news agency BASA reported from Tiraspol on
15 November.  Local conscripts will henceforth have the option to
serve in either the "Dniester" forces or Russia's 14th Army for a
starting wage of 3,000 to 4,000 rubles per month, Lebed and the
"Dniester republic"'s military commissar told a ceremonial
gathering of draftees held under the Russian and Soviet Moldovan
flags.  An officer of Russia's "peacekeeping forces" in eastern
Moldova in turn told Reuters that he would "vote with both hands
for the recreation of the USSR." (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIA SIGNING ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH EC. The association
agreement between Romania and the European Community is to be
signed on 17 November in Brussels, Radio Bucharest reports. An
RFE/RL correspondent in the Belgian capital reports that the
agreement will not come into effect until it is ratified by the
Romanian and European parliaments, but it contains a clause that
allows the trade provisions to become operative even before
ratification. The two sides agreed on trade concessions in fish
products, processed food, and iron and steel, giving Romania
improved access to the community's market.  On the main subject of
debate, agriculture, the Romanians were given provisions similar
to those granted to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.  (Michael
Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.).

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