Activity of the President on February 1–14, 2006

Decrees

The President of Moldova appointed Petru Railean as chairman of the Economic Court of Appeal for a four-year term on February 2, 2006. This post was vacant the entire period when Petru Railean headed the Central Election Commission and the deputy chairman of this court has fulfilled the duties of ad-interim chairman.

Sittings. Statements

Meeting with representatives of security councils of Russia and Ukraine

The President of Moldova has received Yuri Zubakov, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, and Sergey Pirozhkov, deputy secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, and the sides examined issues related to the regional security in the Transnistrian settlement context. Zubakov and Pirozhkov told the meeting that their common visit to Moldova is “a continuation of approaching of stances and stable partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine as participants in the Transnistrian settlement process.” The sitting examined problems related to mechanisms of destruction and withdrawal of ammunition and military hardware from depots in the Cobasna village, legalisation of Transnistrian businesses, monitoring of enterprises working in the industrial-military complex of the secessionist republic of Transnistria, with the participation of Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE.

Drafting of national security concept

A sitting convoked by the chief of state has approved the structure of the National Security Concept of the Republic of Moldova, containing references to dimensions, basic fields and objectives of activity of insurance of national interests of the country under present geopolitical and geo-economic conditions. According to participants in the sitting, the National Security Concept must become a fundamental document with support for all national strategies. The draft concept must be completed by late February.

Quality of health services

The chief of state has chaired a sitting that summarised the activity of the healthcare system in 2005 under conditions of the mandatory health insurance system. The main problems of the system are the deficit of staff, lack of medical services in a number of villages, need to optimise the management of medicine, improvement of situation in primary medicine. Vladimir Voronin insisted on a better quality of medical services, reduction of spending related to maintenance of buildings and other payments related to providing of health services, need to create a mechanism for a better use of allocations.

Enlarged college of Interior Ministry

Participating in a sitting of the enlarged college of the Interior Ministry, Vladimir Voronin appreciated the activity of police and their tasks for future. He insisted on the need to combat corruption, smuggling, economic crimes, to improve the staff policy, to enhance professionalism, legality of police actions, and cooperation between the Interior Ministry and civil society. The chief of state noted that crime leaders have changed their tactic, trying to legalise illegal sources, to invest money raised from different economic projects on illicit ways. On the other hand, he indicated the need to combat the association of former policemen and law enforcement agents with criminal groups. It may be presumed that the latest events, holding and investigation of managers of security agencies in Chisinau and responsible functionaries of the Interior Ministry are related to these statements of the chief of state.

Migration problems

A sitting with the participation of decision-making officials of the Government, Foreign and European Integration Ministry, services in charge with migration convoked by the chief of state has examined a series of problems related to respect for legality in the migration process. The president highlighted the importance of legal entry and leaving of foreign citizens at the state border of Moldova and noted that the legality of migration process is becoming current in perspective of negotiations with the European Union regarding the simplification of the visa regime with the E.U. members. It should be mentioned in the context that the Government has recently tabled a legislative initiative proposing the dissolution of the National Bureau for Migration as central authority subordinated to the executive, without presenting any clear argument of these changes, a fact signalled by parliamentarians who have also tackled this draft.

Interview with the radio channel Yekho Moskvi

Vladimir Voronin spoke out about developments in Moldova and Moldovan-Russian relations in an interview with the Moscow-based radio channel.

The Moldovan president described the Transnistrian conflict as a “conflict of interests” noting that there are structures in the secessionist region with branches in Moldova, Ukraine and Russia, which follow financial interests resulted from the annual “laundering” of about two billion dollars from production and sale of weapons, smuggling. Voronin considers that “impostors in Transnistria buy all those whom they need” with this money and this is the cause why the agreement on the new regime of transit of Transnistrian goods through the Moldovan-Ukrainian border was not implemented.

Speaking about the 2003 memorandum proposed by the Russian Federation, Voronin said that it was unacceptable because it was proposing a federation, while “Moldova lacks conditions for this purpose,” while the Moldovan president could not sign a document capable to allow Transnistria to withdraw from federation and to become a recognised subject of international law. In this regard, the president noted that the issue of creation of a federation “could be solved with a majority of votes of parliamentarians, if the problem of open danger did not exist,” but fell short of revealing the correlation of this decision with the constitutional norms (Art.142), which say that the orders on unitary nature of the state can be reviewed only with their approval by most of citizens included in the electoral lists at a referendum.

Voronin outlined the need to meet with Vladimir Putin and promised that Moldova will launch soon an initiative in this regard. Also, he regretted the collapse of USSR, said that that the communists in Moldova are of new style and they understand the mistakes of history and build their policy on modern social principles, through they contribute to installation of some monuments dedicated to Lenin, to functioning of organisations of komsomolists and pioneers in the republic.

Speaking about the filing of a new case against Valeriu Pasat regarding the attempt to overthrow the state power and to kill some political leaders, Voronin said that he does not hold official information, but the fling of a penal case “must be immediately taken to notice of the person concerned.” He noted that the Prosecutor-General’s Office is not obliged to communicate him all the cases it files and he does not collect facts on such matters. With a couple of days after this interview, representatives of the Prosecutor-General’s Office confirmed the institution of new penal proceeding against Valeriu Pasat for usurpation of the state power and frame-up of an assassination.

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