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The Government has proposed to recall Victor Borsevici from the post of Moldovan Ambassador to China. Some members of administration of the OSCE Mission to Moldova are to be changed soon and heads of the Moldovan diplomatic missions to Sweden and the Czech Republic are to be appointed.

The executive approved the relief of Adrian Fetescu, deputy director of the Licensing Chamber from office. The cause of dismissal was not made public.

Decisions

• Decision on the approval of draft law on combat of family violence. The draft law proposes the introduction of some regulations aimed to improve the situation in the area by applying some interdictions against guilty persons, including the ban against aggressor to come to the work place or residence of victims and their children. Law enforcement bodies will keep a special record of guilty citizens, will visit periodically the victims of these actions and will provide the necessary assistance. According to developers, the implementation of this law would allow the elaboration of a complex statistical system about cases of family violence and would allow authorities to take concrete measures for its efficient struggle.

• Decision on approval of the draft law on exemption of some equipment imports from duties. The Government has worked out a draft law on exemption of water cleaning equipment and installations, biogas degasing installations used for complete reconstruction of the biological filtering station in the Chisinau municipality from VAT. About 300 million lei (some 23 million dollars) will not be collected to the budget after the exemptions. Also, the executive has established the list of technological equipment, equipment and circulating means in the area of science and innovation that will be imported without customs duties in 2006. According to preliminary estimates, the state budget will lose about 2.5 million lei (some 193,000 dollars).

• Decision on approval of draft laws on ratification of some international treaties. The Government proposes the ratification of the second facultative protocol to the international protocol on civil and political rights aiming at abolition of death penalty (adopted in New York on December 15, 1989) and ratification of the Protocol # 13 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty in all Circumstances (signed in Vilnius on May 3, 2002).

• Decision on allocation of financial means. The Government has allocated more than 42,000 lei to the Moldpres news agency from the reserve fund of the executive for payment of execution titles issued in line with a December 2004 judgment. It should be noted that the regulation on use of means from the reserve fund of the Government approved through the June 27, 1997 law # 1228-XIII establishes a list of destination of these means and the allocation of financial means for the needs of some state-owned enterprises is not established express in this list. On the other hand, the statute of Moldpres stipulates that the founder, the Government of Moldova, can cover financial losses from activity of the enterprise. The text of the document drafted by Government neither contain any details about the cause of sanctioning of this state enterprise, nor it says if these sums will be recovered through regress actions against persons who are to blame for eventual violations that generated judgments on sanctioning.
  Also, the Government approved on February 8, 2006 the members of a delegation and spending related to the September 21, 2005 working visit of the Moldovan parliament to Kiev, Ukraine.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

• The prime minister has convoked a working sitting on execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by Moldovan authorities. According to information released at the sitting, most of the ECHR judgments on Moldova have been executed, except for the Ilascu case, which cannot be executed “because of the international conjuncture,” governmental officials said. Vasile Tarlev said that he assumes the responsibility for execution of all ECHR judgments, but “a legal framework on prevention of appeals of citizens to the European court” is needed because the Moldovan Government was sentenced for non-execution or late execution of rulings of national courts in most of cases. The premier considers that this situation can be solved through modification of legislation in order to “enhance the responsibility of officials whose actions can serve as ground for appealing to ECHR.” The president of Moldova has earlier delivered statements in this regard, while the Parliament has tried to adopt an amendment to Constitution, which would set up a supreme national court of appeal, but the draft was turned down because of the lack of a consensus between the majority and opposition factions. At the same time, the legislation that would allow the recovery of estate or fair compensation of its value to victims of political reprisals was not modified until now and many appeals to ECHR are related to these actions of authorities.

• A roundtable examined the implementation of the e-Government Programme. According to studies by IT experts, there is a big difference between level of use of information technologies in central public institutions and institutions of local public administration. Representatives of the Ministry of Information Development in charge with implementation of the e-Government Programme said that the lack of necessary financial resources is one of main causes that halt its implementation. We note that the public system must be modernised and investments of public resources and of foreign investors should be used for this purpose.

• Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev intends to answer questions of citizens online every week. Thus, he said that a special column must be opened on the Government’s website where citizens would be free to give questions. The prime minister backed the idea that a person in every state structure be in charge “with commenting some events at any moment or providing the solicited information to mass media at official level.” Many experts expressed scepticism with implementation of this measure, as most of decisions and actions of public authorities come after repeated coordination, avoiding any information until an agreement of supreme decision-making factors. Also, the hiding of draft decisions of the Government, which should be easily published on the official website of the executive the way they are released on computers during sittings, is inexplicable.

• The Government intends to approve a special plan on “promotion of the real image of Moldova in the world.” According to Premier Vasile Tarlev, this plan is needed because “the opinions about our country are too unilateral in the world, they do not correspond to reality.”

• The Government has examined the implementation of its previous decision on free issuing of identity documents to Moldovan citizens from the left bank of the Dniester river. According to available information, about 45 percent of residents elder than 16 years in Transnistria hold new type of identity documents and they count for about 190,000 persons overall. It should be noted that more than 150,000 citizens held identity documents in the national passport system when this governmental decision was enforced in September 2005. Therefore, only 40,000 persons benefited of free documents within four months. It was earlier presumed that the low number of people who called on competent authorities has made the Government prolong the implementation of this decision by July 1, 2006.

• The Government has released a communique on functioning of the railway company of Moldova. According to the press release, the Government focuses on restoration of activity regime of the railway company of Moldova; it takes measures to solve this problem. The executive says that it is ready to cooperate with businesses and local public administration in the Transnistrian region, which are interested in restoring the unity of the railway. Under the August 2, 2005 Government Decision # 814 on awarding of basic guarantees to population in Transnistria, the restoration of unity of the railway company of Moldova guarantees jobs and salaries to all railway workers in the region.
  The complicated situation in the area of upright functioning of the railway company was generated by a decision of the Transnistrian authorities to take over the control on enterprises and communication ways in the railway system, blocking the traffic on some sections of railroad in the controlled territory. In order to eliminate the consequences of abuses and groundless blockings, the Moldovan authorities have decided to invest large financial resources in restoration of a section of railway, which allows trains to surround the territory controlled by separatists and the Revaca-Cainari railroad was put into operation in late 2005.

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