Activity of the President on May 16–31, 2007

Decrees

Moldova’s president has awarded state medals:

The Labour Glory order to presidential advisor Oleg Reidman and Ungheni district chairman Nicolae Gaviuc;
The Civic Merit Medal to Edward Brown, director of the World Bank Office in Moldova, Victoria Novic, director of the stock society Speranta-Unic, former member of the Parliament, and Stefan Agachi, assistant judge of the Constitutional Court;
The Honour Order to Ruslan Ausev, chairman of the committee on problems of internationalist soldiers.

The chief of state has appointed Daniela Cujba as ambassador, head of the Diplomatic Mission of Moldova to the European Community. Previously, Cujba headed the directorate on political dialogue with the E.U. in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.

Sittings, Decisions. Statements

Talks on National Security Concept

President Vladimir Voronin has chaired a sitting of the commission in charge with drafting the National Security Concept of Moldova, with participants exchanging opinions on this draft document. It was established that the draft meets the international norms, respects the constitutional and neutrality principle of Moldova and clearly stipulates the European integration as a strategic goal of the country. The chief of state appreciated the document and thanked members of the commission for their labour and responsibility, and finally recommended the consultation of the draft strategy with civil society and experts of the European Commission before delivering it to the Parliament for endorsement. Under Decree 374/22.12.2005, the special commission should draft the National Security Concept of Moldova by March 1, 2006.

Sitting on publication of Moldovan Encyclopaedia

A sitting on publication of the Moldovan Encyclopaedia has discussed aspects related to execution of a presidential decree on creation of the commission in charge with preparing the publication. Vladimir Voronin outlined the importance of severely selecting specialists to publish the Encyclopaedia by respecting the national traditions and latest achievements in the field of publication of encyclopaedias. The chief of state called for creation of expert teams to examine the scientific articles of the future encyclopaedia.

Special anti-bureaucracy programme

A sitting of the Supreme Security Council headed by Moldovan president has focussed on legality and combat of bureaucracy during examination of petitions, penal, civil and administrative cases. Prime minister and prosecutor-general presented reports, appreciating the taken actions. At the same time, the chief of state recommended the elaboration of a special programme on this field aimed to intensify actions for a better legal framework, to clear up the notion “reasonable term” and establish “reasonable, but concrete” terms for examination of penal, civil and administrative cases. President Voronin indicated the importance of modifying the national legislation in order to establish severe criminal responsibilities for non-execution of judgments. Participants examined the implementation of the reform of normative framework on regulation of entrepreneurship (Guillotine 1 and 2), start of the process of anti-corruption survey of legal and normative acts, measures for prevention and combat of bureaucracy taken within the central public administration reform.

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