Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Romania's Basescu Names Boc New PM
Bucharest | 17 December 2009 |
Romania’s newly elected president Traian Basescu has nominated current acting Prime Minister Emil Boc to head a new government one more time, after he lost a no confidence vote in parliament in October.
Analysts say Boc has good prospects of winning the backing of parliament from his Liberal Democrat and ethnic Hungarian allies, along with the support of other minority parties and independent deputies.
Traian Basescu said that: "Romania urgently needs a functioning government, in order to fulfill its promises to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and EU."
He said he wants parliament to endorse the new government by 23 December.
Boc's minority centre-right government collapsed on 12 October, after losing a no confidence vote in parliament., carried by 258 votes to 176. He has since led an interim government.
Basescu, who himself was confirmed by the Constitutional Court for a new five-year term as president on Wednesday, is starting consultations with the opposition, including the Liberal Democrats, with the view to forming a majority government.
On Wednesday he said he would like the cabinet list to ba announced on Saturday.
He said he wants a government that can "ensure stability" in the country and continue economic reforms.
"My goal is to have a government in place before Christmas," he said.
He also said he hopes Romania will receive a further tranche of its 20 billion euro IMF-led aid package worth 2.3 billion euro on 17 February.
Basescu won a razor thin majority over this main opponent in the presidential run-off elections on 6 December, giving him the power to nominate a prime minister.
One of the first tasks facing the new government will be to steer a draft budget for 2010 through parliament. Earlier this week, the interim government and IMF reached an agreement on the draft budget. It's passage is a required by the IMF and European Commission for the disbursement of further tranches of international aid.
