Activity of the President on August 1–31, 2007

Decrees

The state commission for the elaboration of the draft Development Strategy of Agro-Industrial Complex was created under a presidential decree. The commission will be headed by Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev and will include members of the Government, a parliamentarian (on behalf of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova), other high-ranking functionaries. The commission will deliver the draft National Strategy on Sustainable Development of Agro-Industrial Complex of Moldova to the Government by October 2007, in order to approve it.

Iulian Magaleas was recalled from the post of Moldovan Ambassador to Greece.

Awarding:

The chief of the Government Apparatus, Nicolae Gumenii, was awarded the Labour Glory Order;
Pantelei Tiltu, chairman of the Board of Observers for restoration of the Capriana Monastic Complex, was awarded the Order of the Republic; Vladimir Baldovici, director-general of the Agency for Constructions and Territorial Development, entrepreneur of reconstruction of the Capriana Monastic Complex, was awarded the Honour Order; the Labour Glory Order was awarded to Vladimir Dubelari, chief architect of the project; medals and other awards were handed in to workers, rebuilders, scientific researchers and archaeologists who participated in projecting and reconstruction of the Capriana Monastery;
State orders have been awarded to participants in reconstruction of the Curchi Monastic Complex, in particular, the Labour Glory Order was awarded to Igor Crapivca, director of the Orvento-Metall Trading Co. SRL, Alexandr Pincevschi, chairman of the board of directors of Elita-5 Holding, and Vladimir Plahotniuc, director-general of the joint stock society Petrom-Moldova; the honorific title Honoured Man was awarded to Yaakov Tichman, director-general of Efes Vitanta Moldova Brewery SA.
The Labour Glory Order was awarded to Feyruz Isayev, chairman of the Consultative Board of Lukoil-Moldova Company.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Tasks for chiefs of territorial directorates of MLPA

Moldova’s president has met heads of territorial administrative control directorates of the Ministry of Local Public Administration (MLPA). He stressed the need of optimising the control on legality of acts adopted by local public administration bodies and intensifying for this purpose the cooperation between territorial administrative control directorates and Moldovan Government. Vladimir Voronin has named among main tasks of these structures the mandatory control on legality of acts of 1^st and 2^nd-level local councils, particularly of those on land, financial-budgetary sector, public patrimony, etc. Voronin outlined the importance of a prompt reaction of these structures to any breach of legislation during decision making and adoption of acts, as well as of the Government’s participation in resolving these problems, if needed be.

Videoconference with local authorities

The chief of state has attended a videoconference on measures taken to attenuate the consequences of the drought and preparation of the national economy for the heating season. According to a report presented at the beginning of the conference by Premier Vasile Tarlev, the agro-industrial sector of Moldova has lost about one billion dollars after the catastrophic drought, with these estimates being confirmed by an expertise by U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) representative. President Vladimir Voronin warned over the need of strictly monitoring in continuation the cost of bread products, in order to prevent a groundless rise of bread prices by private economic agents. In particular, the chief of state stressed the importance of preparing the soil for autumn crops. Voronin asked the Customs Service to remove any obstacles on way of exportation of grapes and outlined the necessity of extending vineyards in continuation by concomitantly installing dripping irrigation systems on these fields, while the Government will consider possibilities of subsidising 50 percent of the cost of the dripping irrigation systems for vineyards. The chief of state also underlined the importance of ensuring the energy security of the country, particularly the supply of all social institutions with heating.

Control regime at Airport

Vladimir Voronin has convoked a sitting of heads of the Interior Ministry, Ministry of Information Development, Customs Service, State Administration of Civil Aviation, Border Guard Service, Information and Security Service, Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption to discuss the human trafficking and smuggling. They studied concrete offices committed at the Chisinau International Airport with the participation of officers of the Customs Service, Border Guard Service, Aeronautic Security Service, and Interior Ministry, employees of Air Moldova, Moldovian Airlines and Voyage International companies. The president cited a report saying that the schemes concerned have been working for a long time, with criminal groups raising fabulous gains. He ordered competent authorities to study the causes of these violations and to severely sanction the corrupt functionaries, strengthen the control of specialised services.

Shortly after the presidency-hosted sitting, the Interior Ministry held a news conference and reported that it has “stopped the work of a criminal group at the Chisinau Airport,” noting that the group included officers of the Interior Ministry and other control and security services of the Airport.

Opinions about current problems

Vladimir Voronin has participated in the TV programme “Discussions with the President” aired by TV channel NIT, and told what he thinks about some hot problems of society and Moldova in general, in particular:

The Russian sanitary service Rospotrebnadzor will not be allowed in Moldova any longer to inspect wine plants;
The Transnistrian conflict could be avoided, while the truth about this conflict was not disclosed so far, but it will be revealed;
There is a difference between the declared and the real independence, Moldova must seek independence in all areas — economic, territorial and energy;
Romania takes actions to annex the Republic of Moldova;
Ethnic minorities must be protected and enjoy equal rights with nationals, but they must study the language of the country where they live;
The Party of Communists is the only party which seriously fights for Moldova’s statehood.

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