A number of 22 Romanian alongside Italian and Hungarian military were awarded the NATO medal for their contribution to the peace mission. It says the protcol is not meant to ensure free and fair elections but to encourage fraud. The announcement by RPSD press agency stands for a general agreement on elections monitoring. Delegates from Council of Europe's Parliamentry Assembly are to arrive in Romania early this week, as well as a group of ten OSCE deputies. There is also a good cooperation with representatives of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw.
More foreign observers are to arrive in Romania by the weekend.
The Romanian American community announced yesterday its support for Romania's first wave NATO membership. The Americans of Romanian origin urged president Clinton to support Romania's candidacy for NATO membership. A document sent to the White House was signed by thousands of Americans of Romanian origin from Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, California, and other regions in the United States as well as by representatives of Romanian Orthodox Church and Greek-Catholic Church in America. A Romanian American delegation met yesterday at the White House with members of the US National Security Council. In Bucharest, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and the Radio-Communications Corporation inaugurated yesterday the second Radio Galaxy Show.