Activity of the President on May 2–31, 2009

Decrees

Sergiu Stati was appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Moldova to Turkey.

Note by ADEPT: Stati is adviser to chief of state. After the April 5, 2009 parliamentary elections enter the Parliament as member of the PCRM faction, and even was nominated chairman of the commission for foreign policy and European integration.

Ion Ciornii was recalled as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Moldova to Lithuania.

Note by ADEPT: Ciornii was recently assigned ambassador to Lithuania and he handed in his credentials in late 2007.

The Labour Glory Order was awarded to Constantin Cheles, director of the state-run enterprise At-Prolin based in Ceadir-Lunga city.

Vladimir Ianiev, deputy director-general of the Joint Stock Society Elevator Kelley Grains based in Causeni city, was awarded the Order of the Republic.

The chief of state has issued some decrees on awarding some groups of officers from the Information and Security Service, Interior Ministry and State Guard and Protection Service.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Optimisation of pre-university education institutions

Moldova’s president has convoked a sitting on reorganisation and optimisation of secondary professional and vocational education institutions. Participants reiterated the necessity to optimise the professional education system, given real needs of staff of domestic economy and areas. It was proposed the equable regional assignment of secondary professional secondary vocational education institutions, their specialisation depending on socio-economic profile of territories and optimisation of institutions with the same profile. The chief of state stressed the importance of starting reforming secondary professional and secondary vocational education institutions, in order to modernise, strengthen capacities of the professional education system, and enhance its efficiency and quality of education.

Agenda of electoral applications

Vladimir Voronin has convoked a sitting on actions to be taken with the purpose to resolve problems of people tackled during the electoral campaign for parliamentary elections. He stressed the importance of finalising the action plan on fulfilment of applications, instructing the Ministry of Local Public Administration to table a strict record of the process of fulfilment of applications. As well, Vladimir Voronin demanded an increased attention for private issues approached during meetings with electors. The sitting also considered the process of implementation of national programmes: gasification of localities; water supply; repairing of roads, stressing the necessity of maintaining implementation paces of these strategic documents.

Concerns with food security

A sitting chaired by the chief of state has heard a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, which says that more than 1.1 million hectares of farm land were sowed for the 2009 crop, including 433,000 hectares with autumn crops, of them 310,000 with wheat. The autumn crops are in a good condition after winter, but warm weather, shortage of rainfalls and reduction of humidity reserves in soil in April-May halted the growing of cereals. In order to ensure the food security, Vladimir Voronin recommended the temporary cessation of food wheat exports and consideration of opportunity to stop the fodder wheat exports. As well, it was reiterated the importance of increasing efforts to enlarge irrigated fields. The Government was instructed to consider other possibilities aimed to improve the situation of agro-food sector and farmers.

Meeting with Gagauz legislators

Vladimir Voronin has informally met members of the People’s Assembly of UTA Gagauzia at the presidential residence in Condrita. Participants discussed the socio-political and economic situation in Moldova, in general, and development of UTA Gagauzia, in particular. They also discussed the recent presidential initiative on elaboration of a complex sustainable development programme for Gagauzia, the necessity of keeping and developing the cultural, linguistic and ethnical identity of Gagauzians.

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