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Activity of the Government on January 3–16, 2005
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e-journal #44 |
Reshuffles
During January 12 session of the Government, ex-Defence Minister, Victor Gaiciuc, was appointed as Republic of Moldova Ambassador to Belgium and representative at NATO. During the same session, Government decided to recall Nicolae Cernomaz as Republic of Moldova Ambassador to Ukraine and concurrently to Azerbaijan and Georgia. He will be replaced by Mihai Laur, who prior to that served as Republic of Moldova Ambassador to Hungary. Valeriu Bobutac was designated to head Moldovan Mission in Hungary. Yet another reshuffle envisaged Eugen Carpov appointed as Republic of Moldova Ambassador to EU, who previously served as Ambassador to Poland.
These are the largest and strangest reshuffles ever among Moldovan diplomatic corps. However the oddest of all is the appointment of Victor Gaiciuc — recently ousted as Defence Minister following disappearance of munitions from the National Army warehouse and major deficiencies within the army discovered by the Supreme Security Council — who despite lacking experience in diplomatic service was entrusted to head one of the most important Moldovan missions abroad. The other reshuffles are hard to explain as well. The reasons for such a move remain unclear, however it is all-too-clear what would be the impact of the reshuffles on the Republic of Moldova’s foreign policy.
Decisions
- At the January 5 session Government decided to complete the Penal Code with a new article — 309 — on punishment for torture. Under the new article, deliberate infliction of severe physical pain as a means of coercion shall be punished by 2 to 5 years in prison, while staging or instigating torture by 3 to 8 years in prison and prohibition to hold certain positions or to undertake certain activities for a period of up to 5 years. If the aforesaid actions are inflicted on a pregnant woman or a minor by two or more persons who take advantage of the victim’s weakness and use torture devices, or the said actions are undertaken by an official, they shall be punished by 5 to 10 years in prison.
- The same day, Government endorsed the draft law on preventing and fighting traffic of drugs and psychotropic substances. Under the draft, the circulation of drugs and psychotropic substances is prohibited or limited on the soil of the Republic of Moldova. If traded those substances will be confiscated, while the perpetrators shall be punished according to the law.
- One week later Government decided to raise by 20% the wages to the staff working in village and city mayoralties, apparatus of the rayon chairpersons and apparatus of the Gagauz-Yeri Executive Committee as of February 1. Out of those, rayon chairpersons are the only ones who would not enjoy a wage raise.
- At the request of the Central Electoral Commission Government accepted to extend until July 1, 2005 the term allowed for the use soviet type internal passports, given that 18% of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova haven’t yet received a new type ID. Those documents were supposed to be out of use as of January 1, 2005. The move is supposed to prevent disenfranchisement of the aforesaid voters in the March 6 parliamentary elections.
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