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Title:       Romania
Book:        Romania December 1989-December 1990
Author:      S.Ion, C. Gheorghe
Affiliation: News Agency Rompres
Date:        1990

Romania's Government

     On 28 June 1990, the Assembly of Deputies and the Senate met in a joint
session during which Mr. Petre Roman, charged by Romania's President on June
20 with the formation of the new government, read the government's Programme -
Statement and the list of the Cabinet made up of 23 members.

     The cabinet announced by Premier Petre Roman was considered, after almost
fifty years of dictatorship, the first Romanian government appointed on the
basis of free elections.

     Of the 23 Cabinet members, 14 are doctors of science many of them are
well-known abroad for their merits and competence and recommended by their
scientific research works and papers.

     The government stands out through its youthfulness, the average age of
its members being 48. Twelve members of the cabinet are under 50, another
eight are 50-to-55 and only three - of whom two secretaries of state - are
over 60.

     The Government's programme is the programme of radical changes, of historic
transformations in our country's destiny as regards, first of all, the setting
of the Romanian economy on sound bases, its adaptation to the requirements of
the world community. It is a programme which comprises a social vocation, hence
the will to protect the broad categories of the population in correlation with
the compulsory objectives of the reform. And since the implementation of the
programme will undoubtedly be difficult, we are prepared to place the economic
agents and operators in a position of real independence vis-@a-vis the state,
the state representing the public interest through judicial and financial
instruments, as it should be in a democracy. "Assuming this responsibility -
with competence, determination and honesty - we are aware that we also represent
a certain form of confrontation with difficulties, but in our capacity as
ministers of the nation, all of us that are members of the government have
accepted this difficult mission." (from the address made on the presentation of
the Cabinet - July 3, 1990)

PETRE ROMAN PRIME MINISTER

     He was born on July 22, 1946 in Bucharest.

     He graduated top-of-the-class from lyceum and the Faculty of Power
Engineering - the hydropower engineering department - of the Bucharest
Polytechnic in 1968 and upon graduation, took up an academic career here.

     Over 1971-1974 he studied in Toulouse (France) for his doctor's degree
and passed a professorship exam. In 1971 he got a Diplome d'Etudes
Approfondies" and in March 1974 he passed the doctor's degree at the Toulouse
Institute of Mechanics of Fluids of Paul Sabatier University his doctoral
paper's theme was national aeration of open surface flows with reference to
river and lake pollution.

     Back home he re-started academic his career at the Power Engineering
Faculty of the Bucharest Polytechnic. Reader in 1976, assistant professor in
1982 and head of the Hydraulic and Hydraulic Equipment Chair in 1985. As of
1990, University Professor. He speaks five foreign languages: French, English,
Spanish, Italian and Russian.

     Concomitantly he has carried on an intensive scientific activity
materialized in a large number of published papers: academic textbooks, books,
papers and studies.

     On December 26, 1989 Mr. Petre Roman was appointed Prime Minister of
Romania's provisional government and on June 20, 1990 he was given the mission
to form the new government of the country.

     He is married and has two children.

ANTON VATASESCU

     Minister Secretary of State in Charge of Industrial and Trade Activities
51, b. Slatina, Olt county. Ed.: Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Bucharest. Professor at the Faculty of Electronics for 15 years. A one-year
researcher in France. Author of specialty books. Experience in the management of
enterprises.

ION AUREL STOICA

     Minister of State in Charge of the Quality of Life and Social Security 47,
b. Saulia de Cimpie, Mures county. A 1966 top-of-the class graduate of the
Faculty of Mechanics specialising in machine building technology at the
Polytechnic Institute in Cluj. Doctor's degree in mechanisms and tribology,
professor at the Mechanisms and Machine Parts Department of the Polytechnic
Institute in Cluj, author and co-author of several books, as well as many essays
on philosophical themes and the history of scientific knowledge and the uses of
science for technology. Selected in 1986 by the Executive College of the
American Biographical Institute for inclusion in the second edition of a book
listing 5,000 world personalities.

EUGEN DIJMARESCU

     Minister of State in Charge of Economic Guidance 42, b. Bucharest. Ed. :
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (A.S.E.), Faculty of Foreign Trade.
Doctor's degree in economics from A.S.E. in 1978. Specialisation terms Salzburg,
Austria - 1973 Brookings Institution, Washington, 1981. Scientific researcher at
Bucharest's Institute of World Economics (1971-1990) and its director since
January 1990. An NSF member of the Assembly of Deputies. Author of studies and
research works in world economics, international relations and foreign trade
(about 200) published in Romania, U.S.A., Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
Italy.

ADRIAN SEVERIN

     Minister, Assistant to the Prime Minister for Reform and Relations with
Parliament 36, b. Bucharest, Ed.: Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, LLD.
Ex-legal adviser to the Romanian Institute of Consulting Romconsult.
Ex-secretary of the Law Department of the Association of International Law and
International Relations. Ex-general secretary of state for privatisation.
Assistant professor of comparative civil and commercial law and of international
trade law.

ADRIAN NASTASE

Foreign Affairs Minister 40, b. Bucharest, Ed.: Faculty of Law, University of
Bucharest, graduated top of his class in 1973. Also the Sociology Department of
the Bucharest Faculty of History and Philosophy in 1978. Doctor's degree in
international law. More than 85 published works, courses and lectures in the
country and abroad. Vicepresident of the Association of International Law and
International Relations. Associate fellow of the International Human Rights
Institute in Strasbourg, France, member of the French Society of International
Law.

VICTOR STANCULESCU

     Minister of National Defence 62, b. Tecuci, Galati county, Ed.: the
Military Academy, international economic relations. Staff-officer Academy.
Experience in army leadership and economic management.

THEODOR DUMITRU STOLOJAN

     Minister of Finance 47, b. Tirgoviste, Ed.: Bucharest Academy of Economic
Studies, Faculty of Financing, Crediting and Accounting, class 1966. Doctor's
degree in economics in 1980. Economist with various units under the Ministry of
Food Industry over 1966-1972. Economist at the Ministry of Finance, state budget
department. Assistant director and director of the state revenue division.
Assistant professor of Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Teaching
post-graduate courses. Member of the International Public Finance Institute in
Saarbrucken, West Germany.

DORU VIOREL URSU"

     Minister of the Interior 37, b. Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinti county.
Ed.: Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. Prosecutor in Bucharest over
1979-1980. Military judge, Bucharest 1980-1990. President of the Bucharest
Military Tribunal after 22 December 1989. Minister of the Interior in the
provisional government.

VICTOR BABIUC

     Minister of Justice 52, b. Rachiti, Botosani county, Ed.: Bucharest Faculty
of Law, Doctor's degree in civil law. Legal adviser, judge, senior scientific
researcher, vice-president of the Court of Commercial Arbitration of the Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.

MIHAI ZISU

     Minister of Resources and Industry
53,b. Birlad, Ed.: Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Economic
Engineering, Experience in industrial management from engineer to manager.
Professor at the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute and Pitesti Faculty of
Technological Engineering.

CONSTANTIN FOTA

     Minister of Trade and Tourism 55, b. Isalnita, Dolj county. Ed.: Faculty of
Foreign Trade, doctor's degree in economics, foreign trade specialist.
Experience in market research at the Chamber of Commerce and the Institute of
World Economics from researcher to department chief on trade policies and
international organisations. Executive president of the Romanian Market Research
Association. Professor at the Academy of Economic Studies, author and co-author
of many specialty works.

IOAN TIPU

     Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry 55, b. Beclean, Brasov county,
Ed.: Iasi Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Animal Farming. A one-year
specialisation term in the U.S.A. Experience in producer cooperative farm
management, state animal farms, ex-director-general at the Ministry of
Agriculture and Food Industry, the meat industrial processing division. In the
provisional government he held the office of deputy minister of agriculture and
food industry.

ANDREI CHIRICA

     Minister of Communications 51, b. Ploiesti, Ed.: Faculty of Electronics and
Telecommunications. Experience in the management of telecommunications
enterprises, development and operation of telecommunications units. He was
deputy minister of posts and telecommunications in the provisional government.

DORU PANA

     Minister of Public Works, Transport and Physical Planning 53, b. Cluj. Ed.:
Bucharest Institute of Construction, Faculty of Equipment construction
Experience in industrial equipment assembly. Ex-construction site chief, group
unit and trust manager.

STEFAN GHEORGHE

     Minister of Education and Science 42, b. Bucharest. Ed.: Bucharest
Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Electronics, class of 1971. Doctor's degree in
electronics. Researcher at the Institute of Atomic Physics, professor at
Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Electronics.

VALERIU EUGEN POP

     Minister of the Environment 51, b. Ploiesti. Ed.: Bucharest Polytechnic
Institute, Faculty of Mechanics, class of 1961, and the Faculty of Power
Engineering, class of 1969. Automobile designing engineer, power engineer, site
chief, manager of hydroelectric station, director of the Water Management
Division since 1979.

ANDREI GABRIEL PLESU

     Minister of Culture 42, b. Bucharest. Ed.: the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Faculty
of Fine Arts, in Bucharest, department of Art History and Theory. Doctor's
degree in history (1981). Researcher at the Institute of Art History,
higher-school professor 1980-1982, author of books. Humboldt scholarship
recipient 1975-1977, 1983-1984.

BOGDAN MARINESCU

     Minister of Health 46, b. Bucharest. Ed.: Bucharest Institute of Medicine
and Pharmacy, Faculty of General Medicine. Senior physician, head of the
obstetrics-gynaecology department, professor at Bucharest Institute of Medicine
and Pharmacy, director of the Giulesti clinic.

CATALIN ZAMFIR

     Minister of Labour and Social Security 49, b. Bucharest, Ed.: Faculty of
Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, class of 1962. Doctor's degree in
sociology, a one-year specialisation term in labour psychology - Michigan,
U.S.A. Head of an industrial sociology team at the Polytechnic Institute.
Director of the Institute for research in the quality of life.

BOGDAN NICOLAE NICULESCU DUVAZ

     Minister of Youth and Sports 42, b. Bucharest, Ed.: Bucharest "Ion Mincu"
Institute of Architecture, class of 1977. Industrial design and interior
architecture specialist.

ROMULUS NEAGU

     Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 60, b. Bucharest,
Ed.: Faculty of International Relations, University of Kiev, class of 1954.
Doctor's degree in international relations, The New York University, 1970.
Career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy minister of foreign
affairs in the provisional government.

ANDREI TUGULEA

     Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education and Science 62, b. Untesti, S. R. Moldova. Ed.: Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, class of 1951. Doctor's degree in the fundamentals of electrical
engineering, 1958. Profesorship since 1968. Consultant to the Academy's
Institute of Power Engineering, author of numerous scientific works.

From the Government's Programme-Statement

     The government's programme-statement expresses the fundamental ideas of the
platform of the parliamentary majority set up through free elections and the
wish for the better put in the service of the nation by those nominated members
of the government, adopting as criteria competence, dignity and honesty.

     - In essence, the structure of the government is the first radical
change on the way to reform, a much more simplified formula being suggested:
the number of ministries and equivalent institutions is reduced to almost one
third as to the previous situation.

     The state apparatus will comprise only decisionmakers for economic
guidance and law implementation eliminating intermediale factors which
dilute responsibility and pervert decisionmaking. The operation of the
instruments of the state is ensured by law.

     - The new government sets from the fundamental premise that it has the
foremost mission to ensure an historic transition of unprecedented scope,
first of all in the economy, that is the transition from a supercentralized
economy to a market economy.

     The government's programme-statement pursues the resorption of the deep
economic crisis inherited from the former regime during the transition to the
market economy - whose decisive stage are the next two years - and the
protection of the most vulnerable categories.

     - The principles of the market economy are introduced, especially in a
first and decisive stage in a society impregnated by the inertia of the old
system. That is why, the liquidation of this system calls for an authentic
managerial revolution, the creation of premises for the selection, assertion
and promotion of new managerial generations with real professional competence,
trained to work efficiently in the conditions of a market economy. In
consideration of the fact that the transformation of the economy is a process
with a marked cultural dimension, priority shall be given to using the
competence of scientists, researchers, professors, of experts in general
without which inertia and conservatism cannot be liquidated.

     - The government has not set itself to give individual solutions it has
the obligation to set the goals to be attained and the legal framework,
duration and success depending on the efficiency and training of the
administration boards. In consideration of the huge responsibility incumbent
on administration boards, the government will grant them big powers,
eliminating a fundamental vice of the past - the disbalance between
responsibility and power, but will not subsidize losses caused by
incompetence.

     - A vital question on the working agenda of the government is to put an
end to the decrease of production and productivity on the one hand, and the
increase of salaries on the other hand, since such a phenomenon could lead to
the incontestable explosion of the economic mechanism.

     - Romania will not be able to accede to the status of European country
unless it follows the fundamental tendency of the continent, and will not be
able to achieve social wellbeing unless it mobilizes the forces of the change:
entrepreneurial spirit, competition, free initiative, privatisation.

     Concretely, the government has set itself to advance to parliament, in
the next 18-24 months at the most, the package of legislative measures apt to
put conditions in place for enterprises to operate within a market economy.

     - In its relations with enterprises, the state itself will act as an
economic agent, through the system of state orders which will be auctioned,
as the state guides itself by the same principle of economicalness.

     - The radical decentralization of decisionmaking powers will also be made
effective at the level of local state administration. Within the regulations
pursuing a higher autonomy of mayoralties, special attention will be paid to
the role of local bodies in the economic and social development of
administrative-territorial units, in the administration of local budgets. The
powers of mayoralties will change sensibly becoming mostly executive with
stress on control over the observance of the legal framework for economic
activities, on the safeguarding of the interests of the citizens living in the
respective area.

     - As far as the question of real autonomy is concerned, the government
will step up price liberalization (all while strictly checking those
concerning the population's supply with foodstuffs, electricity and heat).

     - Other absolutely necessary directions of action of the government are:
fundamental budget restructuring by involving itself less in the financing
of investments which will fall within the powers of everyone's own resources
and banking credit the creation of a network of trade and credit banks
throughout the territory, with a first stage their setting up at least in
every county seat stimulation and creation in this country of banks with
foreign capital and of branches of foreign banks to perform crediting and
business in Romania.

     - Aware that over this period of transition it will not be able to avoid
adverse phenomena like inflation and unemployment, the government will
initiate bills on social security so that social convulsions be limited as
much as possible.

     - The average European standard of living will be attained gradually by
groups of commodities. Food and energy are the first priorities, special
measures being undertaken already in 1990 to be extended in the next two
years. The objective regarding the workweek and the number of days off and
annual holidays has been achieved already this year.

     - The government policy as concerns education will take into
consideration the two forms of pre-university and university instruction. The
former needs a global approach while the latter will be granted real and
substantive autonomy.

     - The never subdued wish for civility and culture of the Romanian people
will have as support cultural creation. In this context, culture will cease to
be a decorous element, to please the political or executive power being a
pre-eminently independent form of representation of the nation.

     - Justice will be reorganized to regain its dignity and the place it
deserves in ensuring the observance and safeguarding of the order of law,
of the fundamental human rights and liberties in concordance with the demands
of the state of law.

     - In the field of foreign policy the government will give absolute
priority to safeguarding, protecting and promoting our national interests,
in an international context still characterized by fluidity and uncertainty,
to the realistic and responsible identification of the most efficient
ways in this respect. Romania's government will further promote its policy of
broad openness to all the countries of the world, to connect the country to
all major international processes and tendencies.

     Thus, all the actions of the government are entirely justified by the
safeguarding of Romania's basic interests, of the dignity of the Romanian
people, through the promotion of stands and relations allowing for the
unrestricted furtherance of the country's democratization.