MINELRES: Romania: Ethnic Diversity Briefs, No.49

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No. 49 / March 31, 2003 
  
DIVERS
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SUMMARY 

 
1. UDMR UPHOLDS ADMINISTRATIVE DECENTRALIZATION
2. LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR ROMA POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION
3. VOLUME ABOUT THE JEWISH FROM ROMANIA
4. LAUNCH OF HOLOCAUST TEACHING COURSE 

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UDMR UPHOLDS ADMINISTRATIVE DECENTRALIZATION
TIRGU-MURES - Over 500 Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR)
local representatives on Saturday March 22 gathered in Tirgu Mures,
within National Conference dealing with public administration as topic.
The conference proposed a resolution on the future of regional
development, thus suggesting setting up Agency for the Covasna, Harghita
and Mures Counties Development, as an organization established by the
three county councils through association. UDMR leader, Marko Bela,
accounted the Conference as "the moment when launching the Union into
public administration and for the beginning of preparations for the next
year's elections ". Into his speech, Marko referred to the current
situation of UDMR, to the perspectives and good actions possibly to be
gained by the Magyars from Transylvania and generally by Romanian
citizens through Romania's accession to the European Union. (DIVERS) 


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LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR ROMA POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION
BUCHAREST - The Parliament's representative of Roma minority, Gheorghe
Paun, has recently initiated at the Chamber of Deputies a proposal for
law draft as regards "social reinsertion of Romanian citizens of Roma
ethnicity ". In accordance with the proposal, it is aimed at setting up
some measures for positive discrimination over Roma, both at the level
of administration, as well as socially, economically and educationally.
The text stipulates settling the National Office for Roma - governmental
structure run by State secretary, which will also promote and supervise
the enforcement of the programmes relating to Roma ethnicity. At the
level of each Ministry, it is to be established a commission for Roma,
made up of three public servants from the Ministry, while at the level
of Government, the interdepartmental Commission for Roma is also
created, in its turn subordinated to the National Office for Roma. The
legislative proposal also stipulates for Roma ethnics willing to attend
the course of pre-academic and academic sources, to be assured certain
number of seats without holding an exam, besides the annual schooling
figure. (DIVERS)  


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VOLUME ABOUT THE JEWISH FROM ROMANIA
CLUJ-NAPOCA - Romanian Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center and the
"Dr. Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History in Cluj
launched the volume called "Ethno-cultural minorities. Documenting
testimonies. The Jewish from Romania (1945-1965)". The work consists of
256 unprecedented documents, coming from various archives of Romania and
from abroad, and chronologically speaking they are located between the
end of World War II - referring to all its complex matters induced by
the return of the Jewish from Poland's concentration camps or deported
in Transnistria - and the decease of the communist leader Gheorghe
Gherghiu-Dej, when his disappearance was thought to be similar with the
end of Stalinism years. (DIVERS)


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LAUNCH OF HOLOCAUST TEACHING COURSE
CLUJ-NAPOCA - At the headquarters of European Studies Faculty of Babes
Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, there took place on March 24 the
festive opening of the course with topic "Teaching Holocaust in
Romania's schools ", organized by the University's Judaic Studies
Institute, meant for teachers of History in the pre-academic field. The
course, which reached the third session, is attended by 30 teachers of
History countrywide. (DIVERS) 


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