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PLUGARU, PETRACHE WARNING AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OF MINORITY

11.03.2010Lawyers Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] presume that after the downfall of the Communist dictatorship in July 2009, Moldova seems to be entering a new trend – consolidation of the dictatorship of a minority. That’s how the two free-lance lawyers perceive the yesterday’s decision of the governing Alliance for European Integration leaders to organize a national referendum on adopting a new Constitution.

ROMA PEOPLE COMPLAINING OF DISCRIMINATION

10.03.2010The Roma of Moldova claim that their rights are restricted, that they are subjected to discrimination, and that the program for the support of gypsies, adopted by the previous Communist leadership, does not work.

TRANSNISTRIA VETERANS CALLING TO MERGER

10.03.2010A group of participants in the 1992 Transnistrian armed conflict have called upon the veterans of all wars living in Moldova to get united into one strong organization.

WOMEN DEMANDING MORE ATTENTION

09.03.2010The Forum of Women’s Organizations, the 50/50 Political Women’s Club, and the Gender Centru organization have stood up with an appeal to the Moldovan authorities and civil society to treat women with a greater attention and care.

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USAID Helps to Bridge the IT Networking Skills Gap in Moldova

12.02.2010The accomplishments of the Cisco Networking Academy Program in Moldova were celebrated at a national conference, “Cisco Networking Academy Program – a Successful Model for Educating ICT Skills,” held on February 11 at 15:00 p.m. in the Raut Room of the Leogrand Convention Center in Chisinau.

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DIRK SCHUEBEL: OUR TASK IS TO BRING MOLDOVA TO THE DOORSTEP OF THE EU

09.03.2010Exclusive interview given to the Infotag news agency by the head of the EU delegation to Moldova, Dirk Schuebel.

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COMPROMISE WITH SMIRNOV IS IMPOSSIBLE – POPOV

11.03.2010Any compromise with Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov is impossible, Moldovan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Popov presumes.

…DEMANDS FROM GOVERNMENT TO MAKE OFFICIAL PROTEST AGAINST ROMANIA’S DECISION TO DEPLOY ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM

08.02.2010

Chisinau. The Moldovan opposition is demanding from the Government to stand up with an official protest against Romania’s intention to deploy anti-missile defense systems on its soil. This demand was formulated in the Resolution adopted last Saturday at the all-republican Communist Party conference.

“The MCP demands from the Government of Moldova to immediately condemn the neighbor Romania’s policy of destabilizing regional security, of creating an atmosphere of cold war and mistrust in the region. The Communist Party is addressing all citizens organizations in the country, to parties and the entire people with an appeal to give a clear and categorical assessment of Romania’s revanchist plans”, the Resolution said.

The Moldovan Communists reminded that the active deploying of anti-missile systems in Europe caused, from the very beginning, a powerful protesting “by the entire European public” and an overt discontent of many countries, and it always added extra differences to inter-state relations.

“It is fully obvious that in conditions when no compromise on the deployment question is being observed between main geopolitical players the nuclear powers, the development of this militarist idea is leading to escalation of tension, first of all on the European continent. Such militarist games are particularly dangerous near conflict regions that are very sensitive to any inter-state controversies of such level”, the Resolution said.

The document authors believe that the projected placement of anti-missile system elements in Romania “is converting our neutral country in fact into a front-line territory of potential confrontation between other states. One may only guess how ruinous these circumstances may be for security strengthening in the region and for a possible settlement of the Transnistria conflict. In such conditions, a constructive approach to the settlement, based on full demilitarization of whole Moldova, on a compromise-like interactions of all the international mediators – Russia, the OSCE, Ukraine as well as of the European Union and the United States, is practically unrealizable”.

The MCP leadership indicated an essential situation-aggravating circumstance – the persistent refusal of Romania, a NATO member country, to conclude a Border Treaty with the Republic of Moldova.