Moldova faces problems connected with its demographical security, which call for immediate action. Such a topic was discussed at a special meeting of the Supreme Security Council, chaired yesterday by President Vladimir Voronin.

According to the presidential press service, participants in the meeting expressed their concern about the decreasing birth rate, ageing of the population, degradation of the institute of family, high migration level.

The President underlined that the improvement of the demographical situation is unthinkable without a systematic complex consideration of the social, economic, medical and other factors.

“All the aspects, connected with the demographical security and ways of overcoming the existing problems, must be included into a single national document, whose objective will be to correct the demographical situation”, he considers.

The council instructed the Government to work out the National Strategy and the National Program on Insuring Demographical Security and to isnure maximum transparency when discussing these problems with the society.

The Government must also take steps to pursue the Public Health Policy for the purpose of raising the birth rate. It must also update the Plan of Measures for Strengthening Migration Management and the Asylum System for 2008-2009 for efficiently managing migration flows.

The Council of Ministers was instructed to provide monitoring and constant analysis of the influence of demographic changes on the systems of social protection, health protection for insuring their solidity, efficiency and financial stability. A special working group will work out the parameters for the systematic, constant and objective assessment of the demographic situation and its trends.

The Supreme Security Council also decided that the Government must increase the number of centers for health protection and family planning and to raise their efficiency, take adequate measures to prevent cases of giving birth to babies at home or in other inappropriate places, transfer the function of free registration of newly born babies to maternity houses.

The Government will also study other countries’ achievements in strengthening the demographic situation and the functioning of the Population Register, strengthening of the bilateral legal basis in the field of migration with other states.

As regards the migration of young people, in particular, from rural areas, the President said that the regional infrastructure should be modernized so as to motivate the young people to remain in villages.

He said that any attempts to cease the activity of pre-university and pre-school institutions should be thwarted.

"Not a single school, not a single kindergarten will be closed irrespective of the number of children that go to these institutions”, Vladimir Voronin said.//REPORTER.MD



Publication date: 18 July 2008   

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