Activity of the President on March 1–14, 2006

Decrees

The Moldovan President signed decrees on appointment of ambassadors on March 3, 2006:

Natalia GHERMAN was named Ambassador of Moldova to Sweden;
Victor POSTOLACHI was appointed Moldovan Ambassador to Austria, Resident Representative of Moldova to the OSCE and Representative to the Vienna-based U.N. Office.
Veaceslav MADAN, Ambassador of Moldova to Bulgaria, was appointed as Sofia-based Ambassador of Moldova to Albania, Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro.

Ten decrees of the chief of state on awarding of official orders were published on March 1–10, 2006.

Dumitru Ursu, former first deputy governor of the National Bank of Moldova, was awarded the Labour Glory order. It should be noted that Ursu, 46, has tendered resignation from this important post that he has run from 1992 from unknown reasons.

Sittings. Statements. Declarations

Renovation of some monuments and headquarters

The Moldovan president has chaired a working sitting on renovation and arrangement of the museum complex Alexei Mateevici in the village of Zaim, the Causeni district. The paternal home of the poet, church where his father had served and the building of the former primary school where Alexei Mateevici had studied will be renovated. According to mass media, the chief of state has insisted that the objects concerned be completely repaired and restored and these works include the consolidation of basements, walls, restoration of historical aspect of the building, arrangement of territory, repairing of road, construction of heating and water providing systems. Voronin proposed that different sources, including the central and local budgets, Social Investment Fund, financing, etc be used to cover the financial spending for works.

Vladimir Voronin convoked a working sitting on March 2 to discuss the problem of building of a new headquarter for the National College of Choreography. The chief of state said that the new headquarter of the National College of Choreography must be built in compliance with the latest requirements in the area, while its construction should become a priority in agendas of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Agency for Regional Development and Chisinau City Hall. He proposed as temporary solution that the Government find possibilities to finance rhythmically the construction of an addition to the present headquarter of the college.

Order and legality of medical expertise system

The Moldpres agency has reported that the Moldovan president convoked on March 9 a sitting on the mechanism of awarding of validity degrees, with the participation of officials of the Government, Parliament and Presidency, representatives of the Association of the Blind. The head of the Republican Council for Medical Vitality Expertise, Leonid Zaharia, has reported on functioning of the medical expertise system, signalling some grave shortcomings in the area. According to findings of some controls, there were cases of awarding of invalidity degree without necessary documents and 16,000 medical expertise files were absent in the archives. The director of the Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption has recently reported that a large number of cases of forged medical files for establishing of invalidity degree was discovered and the fake files represented about 20 percent of the medical expertise files in 2005. The sitting “decided that the Government will examine the opportunity to stop on April 1 the payment of invalidity pensions to the persons whose medical files are absent in archives and refuse a new expertise for reconfirmation of cases.”

It should be noted in the context that the press reported in late 2005 the appearance of a serious conflict within the Medical Vitality Expertise Council, with many expert doctors being suspended from offices for some service investigations. In turn, they accused the council head of misuse of authority and corruption, invoking the fraudulent awarding of invalidity degrees to functionaries close to the Presidency, Government and Health Ministry.

Development plan of the capital

The presidential press service said that Vladimir Voronin has convoked a sitting on the implementation of the development plan of the Chisinau municipality in 2006. The proposals tabled in this regard by the city hall administration called for reconstruction of the Nasterea Domnului Cathedral, construction of an elderly asylum, repairing of a centre for minors, reconstruction and redimension of the Memorial Complex, finalisation of construction of the northern bus station, construction of the trolley line leading to the Agrarian University, continuation of arrangement of dwelling districts and implementation of projects on building of attics, etc. The chief of state demanded competent authorities to speed up the designing, identification of optimum solutions aimed to establish spending estimate and administration of means distributed for development of the municipality in 2006.

Statements on Moldova-1

The Moldovan president delivered a series of statements on interior and foreign policies of the country during a programme on the TV channel Moldova-1:

Speaking about the Transnistrian problem, Vladimir Voronin said that the negotiations with representatives of the Transnistrian side have been inefficient and their withdrawal from talks will not be an obstacle, as the discussions will be held “with the democratic society from the region elected on democratic principles.” Voronin has compared the participation of Transnistria in negotiations with the proceedings when the prosecutor and the judge negotiate the punishment with the accused person. The chief of state ruled out any possibility of a new armed conflict in Transnistria, saying that “all the problems are solved on a political way.”
New approached are expected in the relations with the Russian Federation, with the Moldovan president intending to visit Moscow in order to discuss issues related to the Transnistrian problem and development of relations of bilateral strategic partnership with President Vladimir Putin.
Answering a question regarding the ground of accusations of exaggerated concentration of the power in state and refusal to tender resignation from the post of chairman of the Moldovan Party of Communists (PCRM) , Vladimir Voronin said that the post of PCRM leader helps him fulfil his tasks through leading bodies of the party and parliamentary majority faction, develop cooperation between the Presidency, Parliament and Government, contributing to an operative settlement of country’s problems this way.
Speaking about the April 4, 2005 vote of some opposition political parties for his candidacy, Vladimir Voronin said that these parties have demonstrated political maturity and they did not betray anybody. He considers that the coalition have allowed these parties to fulfil certain objectives, as for example, the “ten conditions” of PPCD, which have been already fulfilled.
The chief of state said that he will not bid for a new mandate of chief of state and will respect the constitutional provisions this way.
As regards the European integration objective, Voronin considers that it will not be reached by 2009, but promised to do his best in order to hand over a strong state with normal living standards for population to his successor. The chief of state noted that there is no contradiction between the European vector of Moldova and the membership of our country to the CIS, because this structure is the fastest sale market for Moldovan products, where they enjoy some facilities.

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