Activity of the President on May 31 – June 14, 2006

Decrees

The Moldovan president has signed decrees on appointment of judges: heads of (district) law courts; before age limit; to offices of judges or instruction judges.

As the first academic scientific institutions of Moldova have turned 60, the chief of state awarded different state orders to scientists from Moldova and other countries (Romania, Russia, Poland, the United States). Vladimir Voronin was awarded the title Doctor Honoris Cauza of the Academy of Sciences for the first time in our country during the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, at which the chief of state handed in the awards to scientists.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Black Sea Forum Summit

Vladimir Voronin addressed the Summit of Black Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership that took place in Bucharest on June 5, saying that the forum has become “a bridge, a common place for meeting of elder and younger democracies, a bridgehead for enlargement of democratic area.” Voronin noted that the Black Sea Forum may and must become “a field for elaboration and implementation of efficient mechanisms of transborder cooperation.” The chief of state underlined that the European integration and reintegration of country “are objectives of primordial national interest” for Moldova, while the second has a vital importance because “the supervision of Moldova as state is unimaginable without fulfilling it.” The president asked that the Joint Declaration of the forum raises the separatism problems trenchantly and without ambiguities.

Calming down spirits

On June 13 Vladimir Voronin attended a sitting of the parliamentary Communist faction which discussed the intensification of cooperation between the majority faction and Government, outlined the need to improve laws and to work out an anti-corruption expertise mechanism for draft laws. The chief of state demanded a urgent adoption of legislative acts related to implementation of national programmes, the European Union — Moldova Action Plan and for implementation of the 2nd stage of regulatory reform. According to mass media, the chief of state has denied speculations on eventual monetary-banking crisis, saying that currency reserves of the National Bank continue to grow, the banking system functions normally, the authorities took efficient actions to diversify market of Moldovan wine products, while the budget for January-May 2006 was overfilled, so that the Government may propose more expenses in the state budget.

Mass media, news bulletins and former governmental newspapers have widely mediated the participation of chief of state in a working sitting of the faction, but especially his statements about controlled economic-financial situation and republished these statements some days in a row^[1].

Concerns with science

The chief of state has visited structures of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences and collected facts regarding distribution of major budgetary funds allocated to science. The president sought a more active implementation of scientific accomplishments, proposing cooperation of Moldovan wine makers with the laboratory for analysis of underground and mineral waters, whose certificates are internationally wanted. Vladimir Voronin outlined the need to continue researches by widely using the domestic rape oil as alternative energy source.

The chief of state attended a solemn sitting of the Assembly of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences on June 12 and addressed the participants. He criticised the previous situation in the field of endowment and financing of sciences and said that the important changes proposed in the past year have been accomplished by awareness in order to contribute to rebirth of national science, its affirmation in society, in order to make the science available to society. Vladimir Voronin promised a plenary support for scientific reforms and researches in future as well, assuring scientists that they will benefit of more financing from state.

↑ This situation made some observers conclude that the participation of president in the sitting aimed to calm down the spirits inside the majority faction and to demonstrate to public opinion that there are no premises for deepening of crisis. On the other hand, prices of oil products have recently grown by about 3 percent, while the National Bank of Moldova had to intervene on currency market, selling about 1.5 million dollars in order to stop the speculations and inflationist evolutions on market.

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