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Activity of the Government on September 22 – October 5, 2003
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e-journal #16 |
Reshuffles
The Government ousted Lilia Pogolsa, Deputy Minister of Education. The same day, Vasile Sturza, Republic of Moldova Ambassador to Bulgaria was also assigned as Ambassador to Union of Serbia and Montenegro, whereas Emil Ciobu, Republic of Moldova Ambassador to Romania, Greece and Cyprus was recalled from his position.
Decisions
Government endorsed the draft Conception of State National Policy developed by the Presidency, which was harshly criticized by political parties, non-governmental organization, mass media, Writers Union, etc. Probably because of this criticism the Government recommended the wording of the Conception to be “carefully edited”, as well as submitted for expertise and public debates. The Government stressed that “a new wording of the Conception is necessary so as to avoid any overlaps with other legislative acts, to use appropriately notions, to observe the scientific truth, to exclude ambiguities, which are to be found even in the document title, and to edit the language”. In this respect, it is worth mentioning that recently the Parliament established a commission entrusted to improve the draft Conception of State National Policy. The commission, headed by the leader of the Communist faction in Parliament Victor Stepaniuc, includes seven Communist deputies, two deputies of Moldova Noastra Alliance, one Christian-Democrat deputy and an independent deputy. It remains to be seen whether Communist deputies would have the skill to revise the draft in such a manner as to leave little room for criticism from civil society, while accommodating President Voronin who is the author of the document.
Via another decision Government approved the draft law regulating the statute of towns and villages. The draft is intended to standardize domestic legislation in the field by providing an obligatory sample-statute for organization and functioning of towns and villages of the Republic of Moldova. Thereby, administrative-territorial units statute shall include the name of the locality, its administrative territory, residence locality, territorial boundaries, number of inhabitants, their ethnic representation, patrimony of the locality, educational, cultural, healthcare and social care institutions, press, etc. Under the draft citizens representing a national minority are entitled to speak their native language in the local public administration, as well as to preserve, develop and express their ethnic, linguistic and religious identity.
Furthermore, the Government approved the membership of the Republican Census Commission, which is to coordinate the preparations and conduct of the census scheduled for April 1–8, 2004. It will be conducted in the eastern regions of Moldova as well. It is still not clear whether Transdnistrian authorities would agree on a centralized census or they would insist on a separate census for Moldova and Transdnistria.
Payments for imported gas
Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev met with Deputy Chair of the Russian Gazprom, Alexandr Reazanov, to talk about payments of gas import, transit of gas from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan through the Moldovan territory. Russian side was dissatisfied that Moldova failed to pay in full the imported gas, and this given that as much as 40 percent of the fuel delivered by Gazprom via Moldova-Gas company is lost during transport. The parties agreed on measures to secure the payment for the consumption of gas, including in exchange for goods. According to BASA-Press, Moldovan debt for gas deliveries was 121.1 million USD as of July 1, 2003.
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