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			Romania
	Population: 23.2 million (July 1995)				Area: 91,500 square miles		Capital: Bucharest (population 2,354,000)
	Other cities: Constanta (350,000), Iasi (344,000), Timisoara (334,000), Cluj (328,000), Galati (326,000), Brasov (323,000)				Language: Romanian		Religions: Roman Orthodox (70%), Roman Catholic (6%), Protestant (6%)

Economy and Economic Data
	GDP per capita: lei 2,065,726 (1994) (about $1,250) Currency: leu; lei 7,757.5 = $1 (October 1997) Average wage: lei 201,271 per month (June 1995) (about $100 per month) Major industries: textiles and footwear, metallurgy, timber, chemicals, food processing, petroleum refining Agriculture: wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, potatoes, milk, eggs, meat, grapes Natural resources: major producer of oil and natural gas; timber; also deposits of coal, iron ore, non-ferrous metals, and salt Government Parliamentary republic - the president is directly elected and nominates the prime minister Head of State: President Emil Constantinescu (elected November 1996) Prime Minister: Victor Ciorbea (National Peasant-Christian Dem.) Parliament: bicameral parliament with Senate (143 seats) and Chamber of Deputies (341 seats) Government coalition: Democratic Convention of Romania (CDR) and the Social Democratic Union (USD) Elections: last held November 1996

Treaties and Agreements in Force

European Union: Associate member agreement (1993)

OECD: no

Central European Free Trade Agreement: yes

World Trade Organization: yes

EFTA: Free Trade Agreement (1993)

Most-Favored-Nation status with United States: yes

International environmental agreements: Party to: Air Pollution, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands. Signed, but not ratified: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Law of the Sea

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Recent policy developments in Romania

Articles related to Romania in the East/West Letter

• "Romanian Revolution Complete: Elections sweep non-Communist reform movement to power" by Lynda Maillet, November/December 1996.
• "Privatization Watch: Romania opens over-the-counter market" in September/October 1996.
• "Selling It in Bucharest: Consumer Product Distribution in Romania" by Lynda Maillet in August/September 1995.
• "When the Lights Went Out: Reconstructing Energy Policy and Infrastructure in Romania" by Lynda Maillet; review of Walt Patterson's Rebuilding Romania: Energy, Efficiency and the Economic Transition in August/September 1995.
• "Reform Speeds up in East Europe: Privatization update, part I" by Lynda Maillet in January/February 1994.

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