​LEADER OF “THE RIGHT” SAYS SPECIAL LEGAL STATUS FOR TRANSNISTRIA IS FRAUGHT WITH RISKS

Anna Gutu, the leader of The Right party, believes that provision of Transnistria with a special legal status may bring about serious risks, and she is calling on the Moldovan authorities to suspend the 5+2 format negotiations with Tiraspol.

The former parliamentarian stated at a news conference on Monday that the Transnistrian conflict will not be solved either in a short-term or in a long-term perspective “because its resolution is directly linked with attempts to upset Moldova’s unification with Romania”.

In her opinion, the giving of a special legal status in the framework of the 5+2 negotiating format may lead to “transnistrianization of whole Moldova, and this is fraught with the country’s descent from the Euro-Atlantic path”.

The leader of the party, which has proclaimed unification with Romania as the organization’s main goal, demanded from the Moldovan authorities to freeze the 5+2 format negotiations on a legal status for Transnistria and to bring the Transnistrian raions back into Moldova.

Anna Gutu also proposes to ensure security on the administrative border with the Transnistrian region “by unfolding check stations and a strict delimitation of the territory controlled by the constitutional authorities of the Republic of Moldova”.

“Upon completion of these operations, the participation of Moldova in the 5+2 negotiating format becomes unnecessary and must be ceased. The next step must be the creation of a financial support fund (special means from the Moldovan State Budget and means from international donors) for obtaining housing for Transnistria residents wishing to move over to the right [Moldovan] side of the Dniester River. The 4th step is acceleration of Moldova’s connection to the energy system of Romania (gas and electricity), so that to stop depending on the power generated by the Moldavskaya power plant (in Transnistria)”, said Anna Gutu.

She believes Moldova should ask external assistance for solving this problem by the end of 2018. Anna Gutu called the authorities, diplomatic missions accredited in Moldova and the mass media to pay serious attention to the situation.

Infotag’s dossier: Anna Gutu was a Member of the Moldovan Parliament from the Liberal Party in 2009 through 2013, after which she joined the group of the so-called “reformers of the Liberal Party” who demanded dismissal of unsinkable LP leader Mihai Ghimpu. The ‘rebels’ then sustained a crushing defeat, and Anna Gutu and other discontented Liberals founded the Liberal Reformist Party, in which she became a co-chair.

Before the November 2014 parliamentary election Gutu proposed her colleagues to get united with the Liberal Democratic Party of Vlad Filat, but in vain. After that, Anna Gutu stated she was retiring from active politics. As it turned out shortly after – not forever.

In September 2015, she announced the creation of a new political party for the only, but historic goal to achieve: “reintegration of the Romanian nation through a juridical-political, economic, military, diplomatic and social unification of the Republic of Moldova and Romania”.

In the opinion of her initiative group members, the creation of the new party was absolutely necessary in the conditions of a deep crisis that had plagued the social, economic, political, moral and cultural spheres of Moldova citizens’ life.

The Right are proposing to recognize the Transnistrian region as “a separatist zone occupied by Russia” and on this ground – to revise the 1993 Agreement signed by Moldovan President Mircea Snegur and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and to replace the current [since 1992] international peacekeeper mission in Transnistria with a multinational mission of civilian observers under an United Nations mandate.