Activity of the President on October 1–15, 2006

Decrees

Two presidential decrees on awarding and regaining of Moldovan citizenship by 8 persons and two decrees allowing 191 persons to renounce to Moldovan citizenship were published in the October 6 issue of the official gazette “Monitorul Oficial”.

Moldova’s president has appointed Corneliu Popovici as deputy rector of the Academy of Public Administration of the Moldovan presidency. Popovici is an author of the Integrated History textbook contested by academia and opposition political parties.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Coordination of capital investments

Moldova’s president has convoked a sitting on capital investments stipulated by the draft 2007 state budget law, with the participation of prime minister, members of the executive and presidential advisers. The priorities included the construction and reconstruction of roads, gasification and supply of localities with drinkable water, capital investments in science and innovations. Participants also indicated a two-fold decline of capital investments in state services with general destination (Apparatus of the Government, financial and control bodies, national defence bodies). Capital investments in justice will be increased (by 30 percent) and capital investments for needs of penitentiaries are expected to grow, in order to adjust prisons to European standards in the field. Basic expenses for road building will grow 4-fold, up to 198 million lei (according to some estimates, the cost of a kilometre of highway exceeds 10 million lei and at least 500 kilometres of national roads should be built in order to boost the economic activity. Vladimir Voronin noted that gasification and readjustment of educational and healthcare institutions from localities connected to natural gas and water pipes to drinkable water providing system remain the priority of 2007.

Control on implementation of regulatory reform

Vladimir Voronin has convoked a sitting on implementation of regulatory reform, which focussed on problems linked to organisation of one-stop shops, limitation of the number of technical authorisations and confirmations, stabilisation of licensing order. The chief of state outlined that the so-called “Guillotine” has found support in business environments and it was welcomed in spite of the initial scepticism. An operative and grounded implementation of the Guillotine-II is needed to settle the problems and confirm the deregulation policy.

Meetings with Russian delegates

The chief of state had a meeting with a Russian delegation headed by Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko, co-chairman of the Moldovan-Russian intergovernmental commission for commercial-economic cooperation. Vladimir Voronin learned about what the Moldovan-Russian intergovernmental commission has discussed at a sitting, with the sides noting that some preliminary agreements on key issues in the field of economic activity, energy complex and agri-industrial sector were reached. Mr. Voronin was satisfied with positive results of activity of the Moldovan-Russian intergovernmental commission and the achieved consensus, outlining the importance of dialogue, consistent and coordinated actions for development and intensification of Moldovan-Russian relations in various fields.

Mr. Vorinin has met with the deputy foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Mr. Grigori Karasin, who was on a working visit to Moldova. Karasin noted that the Moldovan-Russian contacts have intensified after the August meeting between Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and Russian President Vladimir Putin and underlined that important events for optimisation and development of Moldova-Russia cooperation have taken place in the past months: the sitting of the joint intergovernmental commission for commercial-economic cooperation, intensification of contacts at level of officials of Moldovan and Russian executives. According to a press release of the presidential press service, the Moldovan president agreed with the opinion about warming of relations between Moldova and the Russian Federation. Mr. Voronin stressed that the Transnistrian issue is the main unresolved problem in Moldovan-Russian cooperation and indicated the opportunity of examining the Transnistrian problem in a constructive and mutually acceptable manner.

A new meeting with diaspora representatives

The Moldovan president has met with the leader of the Party “Our Home — Israel”, Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the parliamentary friendship league Israel-Moldova, at the 2nd congress of Moldovan-born people. Vladimir Voronin appreciated the interest for Moldova of the Moldovan-born influent political personality from Israel, Liberman, who contributes to extension and deepening of the Moldova-Israel dialogue in different fields. The chief of state expressed again hope that members of the Moldovan diaspora in Israel will support the implementation of mutually advantageous Moldovan-Israeli cooperation projects.

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