ROMANIA’S LOWER HOUSE RATIFIES TREATY WITH UKRAINE.

By a vote of 165-92, Romania’s Chamber of Deputies ratified on June 26 the Romanian-Ukrainian framework treaty signed on June 2 by Presidents Emil Constantinescu and Leonid Kuchma. Representatives of the pro-Western governing majority, supporting the treaty, pointed to Ukraine’s key role in regional security. The opponents, mainly partisans of the leftist ex-president Ion Iliescu and their ultranationalist allies, objected essentially to the recognition of Ukraine’s borders in the treaty. (Flux, June 27)

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