* Interview with Academician Păun Ion Otiman, secretary general of the Romanian Academy
The most important components of the treasure of the Romanian Academy are the cultural and scientific ones, rather than its wealth, like far too many laymen or malevolents imagine, academician Păun Ion Otiman, the secretary general of the Romanian Academy told us in an interview. He also said that the institution he represents owns farmland, forests and buildings.
The secretary general says that the Academy hasn't sold any assets, not one square meter of land, it has simply assigned two parts of its patrimony which it never actually owned. Mr. Păun Ioan Otiman also gave us a detailed account of the scandal over the assignment of the Coandă house.
Reporter: How large is the wealth of the Romanian Academy - land, buildings, money, books, artworks, furniture? Have you updated the book value of the assets?
Academician Păun Ion Otiman: The evaluation, from a patrimonial point of view, of the wealth of the Romanian Academy is a process which is irrelevant from an accounting standpoint, because the difference between "the market value" and the "book value" of the patrimony of an entity like the Romanian Academy, is great. The most important components of the treasure of the Romanian Academy are the scientific and the cultural one, not the material one, like so many laymen or malevolents imagine.
It is enough to mention just three patrimonial elements of the Romanian Academy:
- the historical documents, the manuscripts, incunabula, rare books (several millions, of which 497,000 recovered by the Library of the Romanian Academy over the last 2-3 years, namely the documents transferred to the National Archives through the decision of the Executive Political Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party PCR 1070/1978);
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