April 29, 1997

Gabriel Andrescu, President of APADOR, the Rumanian Helsinki Committee, expressed his support for ethnic Hungarian Mayor of Tirgu Mures/Marosvásárhely Imre Fodor, who had been attacked by County Prefect Dorin Florea for posting an employment notice requiring fluency in Hungarian in this 50 percent Hungarian-inhabited town. [MTI (Budapest), April 29, 1997]

April 12, 1997

Rumania signed its CEFTA agreement today and will become the sixth and full member on July 1, 1997. [Magyar Nemzet (Budapest), April 12, 1997]

April 8, 1997

Rompres reported that the Babes-Bolyai University Senate adopted the newly-formed Joint Committee's decision regarding the "multicultural" character of the institution, and elected Pál Szilágyi and Wolfgang Breckner, as the Hungarian and German Deputy Rectors of the institution. [Magyar Nemzet (Budapest), April 9, 1997]

The Rumanian Orthodox Metropolitan Nicolae Corneanu admitted to collaborating with the Securitate from the 1970’s onwards, taking such measures as expelling five "dissident" priests from the church. [Új Magyarország (Budapest), April 8, 1997]

Following a three-hour debate, at the recommendation of Rumania Special Rapporteurs Jansson and Schwimmer, the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted today by absolute majority to suspend monitoring Rumania's compliance with Council commitments. [Ziua (Bucharest), April 8, 1997]

April 7, 1997

The Council of Representatives of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Rumania, the organization’s highest decision-making body voted that the its next Congress will be held in October 1997 in Tirgu Mures/Marosvásárhely. [Népszava (Budapest), April 7, 1997]

April 4, 1997

The newly created Rumanian-Hungarian-German Joint Committee of the Babes-Bolyai University debated the future restructuring of the university and declared that the multicultural character of the institution will remain in force. [Vasárnapi Hírek (Budapest), April 6, 1997]

April 2, 1997

Norman R. Augustine, President of Lockheed Corporation, announced at the end of his visit to Rumania that his company has begun taking steps towards the U.S. Administration and Congress urging that Rumania be admitted to NATO in the first round. [Curierul National as reported by Sajtófókusz (Cluj/Kolozsvár) No. 65-66/311, March 31-April 7, 1997]

April 1, 1997

OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Max van der Stoel has begun a three-day visit to Rumania today and will meet President Emil Constantinescu, Prime Minister Victor Ciorbea, leaders of the Education, Foreign and Cultural Ministries, DAHR President Béla Markó, as well as Minister without portfolio György Tokay, head of the National Minority Protection Office. [MTI (Budapest), March 29-April 1, 1997]