Oana Dan
Romania took presidency of the Roma Social Integration Office yesterday and will coordinate and complete projects and social policies to improve the situation of the Roma people, along with the authorities of the eight European states that are part of the office.
The president of the National Agency for the Roma, Mariea Ionescu, who is going to be the head of the European Office, met yesterday with the former Hungarian president of the office, Laszlo Teleki. Ionescu said she will continue the programs of her predecessor and also complete other projects to improve the social condition of the Romas.
She emphasized the necessity to improve the strategy for Romas, developed by Romania's former Social Democratic government under Adrian Nastase.
Ionescu added that the National Agency for the Romas has set as a goal to become a mediator of the relationships between ministries and Roma organizations, in order to get both of them deeply involved in completing the National Development Plan for 2007-2013.
Another priority of the agency is normalizing the situation at Hadareni, which has been the cause of a trial at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Ionescu said that the government is going to monitor the situation there to make sure that the decision of the ECHR is followed and that the Romas are no longer discriminated against.
Representatives of the World Bank and the European Commission Delegation to Romania along with NGOs were present at yesterday's meeting.
The Roma Social Integration Office, which was launched in February 2005, runs several government and non-government programs to improve the situation of the Romas, financed from state as well as external funds. The office is supported by the European Community.
The former president of the National Agency for Romas, Ilie Dinca, has said the office is a political commitment and multinational effort to eliminate discrimination against the Roma population and to give them equal opportunities.
According to Dinca, the main problems confronting the Romas are lack of education, poverty and the lack of houses and jobs.
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