Activity of the President on November 1–16, 2007

Decrees

The Moldovan president has operated structural and nominal changes in his apparatus:

Igor Vremea will be advisor for legal affairs, head of the directorate for law and public relations of the Presidential Apparatus;
Viorelia Moldovan-Batrinac was appointed advisor for culture, education and science;
Valerii Diozu, chief of the analytical information directorate of the Presidential Apparatus, was appointed to the new post of advisor for information development;
The function of “advisor for interior affairs” turned into “advisor for political affairs” and Marc Tcaciuk will run this office;
The post of advisor with special missions was cancelled.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Interviews in mass media

Moldova’s president has tackled issues of interior and foreign policy in an interview with Radio Free Europe, saying among others that:

“the draft status of the Transnistrian autonomy, the mechanism guaranteeing the execution of this status and reunification problems” have been established during consultations with the United States, Russian Federation, Ukraine and EU;
Kosovo cannot be a model for the Transnistrian conflict;
Moldova plays an increasing role of a bridge between the East and the West;
The relations with the Russian Federation do not contradict and they fit Moldova’s European integration interests;
Something similar with the EU work was modified in the CIS activity, but the situation is more complicated as regards GUAM, as development directions of this organisation are unclear so far;
The experience of Romania, Bulgaria and new EU members is important and raises a special interest, since activities of these countries “are fresh in accession technology”;
“The Romanian initiative on dual citizenship” has challenged very serious problems to the Moldovan state;
The new draft programme of the Party of Communists will be made public on November 17, it will be discussed on March 15, and it will be raised at the ordinary congress of the party in order to be approved;
The Government is aware that not all citizens of Moldova live well but the migration problem has stabilised and the migrant inflow is not like several years ago;
The labour force export is not an official statistical economic category, remittances are not taken into consideration to analyse and calculate the GDP.

In an interview with the Romanian newspaper Evenimentul Zilei, Vladimir Voronin has accused Romanian authorities and criticised the policy of the neighbouring country. Romanian authorities refrained from comments.

Speech dedicated to the 1917 Socialist Revolution

Supporters and members of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova have attended a meeting dedicated to the 90^th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. Taking part in the meeting was also the state leadership, members of the PCRM Central Committee, lawmakers and ministers. The Moldovan president addressed the meeting, describing the event as important and the October Revolution as a key page of the history. Voronin regretted that the noble goal of the October Socialist Revolution is confounded with its consequences, but assured that the idea of the October Revolution will exist in continuation, being necessary “for us and for next generations.”

Restoration of capacities and enlargement of the Republican Centre for Children and Youth

The Moldovan president has visited the Republican Centre for Children and Youth in Chisinau, collecting facts regarding the work of this institution. Most buildings of the centre are deteriorated and they lack conditions for a normal extra-school education of children and youths. The inefficient and inappropriate administration of buildings of the centre has degraded this institution and reduced the activities. Many places of this institution have been rented by economic agents in the past 15 years and the abusive exploitation of the patrimony for children and youths by entrepreneurs completely degraded the centre: only 500 out of 15,000 square metres correspond to functioning requirements for such institutions. Voronin ordered the finalisation of the organisational structure and concept of the National Centre for Children and Youths within limited terms, so that to restore the capacities of this institution and to extend and permanently develop it.

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