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PRESIDENT VORONIN INFORMS EU COUNTRIES ABOUT MOLDO-ROMANIAN RELATIONS...
Chisinau. Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has sent letters to the heads of 27 European Union Member States informing them about the current shape of the Moldo-Romanian relations.
Speaking over the NIT television channel last Friday night, Voronin stressed that Bucharest does not wish to sign Border Treaty with the Republic of Moldova, “but without this basic document, all discussions about a Convention on trans-border traffic with Romania are devoid of any sense. How can we sign such Convention if we do not have the border? First we have to define the border clearly. Then we will sign all other agreements. How and from which point can we measure these very 50 kilometers? [The width of the ‘special’ zone along the common border within which the preferential border-crossing regime is to work] Thank God, there is the Prut River flowing between us”.
He reminded that “even the United States couldn’t bear it up and stood up with a statement on the issue”.
In his words, Chisinau did all it could to eliminate barriers and to sign yet another important document with Romania – a Basic Political Treaty, and the chief apple of discord has been the language name.
“We proposed to not use the name ‘Moldovan language’ but to use the term ‘state language’ instead. But even that formula was not accepted”, Voronin said.
Vladimir Voronin hinted that Romania applies double standards when it speaks of signing Basic Political Treaties with Moldova and other countries: “Bucharest does not want to sign such Treaty with us, though has already signed them will all the rest neighbor countries. When it comes to Moldova, Bucharest starts telling us that the fashion on treaties has already passed, and that such treaties are not at all necessary”.
The President characterized as ‘infantilism’ the opposition’s efforts to force the Moldovan Government into an immediate signing of the Convention on trans-border traffic with Romania. He meant the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova that organized citizens’ meetings in 13 Moldovan raions along the Romanian border as well as in Chisinau, at which signatures were raised in favor for Convention signing.
“Filat [MP, LDPM leader] apparently wants to privatize the Moldo-Romanian border”, smiled President Vladimir Voronin.
