16 Opposition parties - including the Romanian Social Democracy Party (PDSR), the Great Romania Party (PRM), the Romanian National Unity Party (PUNR), The Socialist Labour Party (PSM) and the Socialist Party (PS) - and 12 non-governmental organizations decided Sunday to found a co-ordinating council for the elaboration of a minimal co-operation program. The Opposition meeting housed by the "Vatra Romanesca" Union was also attended by PDAR (the Agrarian Democratic Party of Romania), the National Liberal Party - Cimpeanu, the Romanian Ecological Movement (MER), The Party of Romanian Unity (PUR), the Republican Party, the Motorists' National Party, the Liberal Christian Party, the National Peasant Party - Lambru, the Liberal Republican Party and the Social Labour Party of Romania (PSMR). The Alliance for Romania, the New Romania Party and the Labour Romanian Party attended this meeting as observers. The participants criticized the country's economic and political situation and said that they have to co-ordinate their political actions in order to "stop the actual anti-national policy" and to constitute some alternatives to the actual government. After five hours of discussions, the representatives of the Opposition parties and of the non-governmental organizations agreed to found a co-ordinating council and a technical secretariat that will elaborate a minimal co-operation program. The Co-ordinating Council will be made up of each party representative and of the civil organizations. The first meeting of the Co-ordinating Council is scheduled for November 6, 1997. The PDSR president Ion Iliescu, present at the reunion of the Opposition, Characterised this meeting as "a first step" in realising a common framework for the Opposition's actions. Besides Ion Iliescu there were also present other party leaders such as the PSM leader Ilie Verdet and Adrian Paunescu and the MER