MOLDOVA PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES HIS BUCHAREST COLLEAGUE ON ROMANIA’S NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has congratulated President of Romania Klaus Iohannis on the neighbor country’s national holiday, Dodon wrote on his Facebook page. And the congratulation proper was published on the Presidential Administration’s website on Friday.

“It is my special pleasure to convey to you – from behalf of the Republic of Moldova people and personally from me – sincere and cordial congratulations on the occasion of the National Day of Romania and to wish peace and prosperity to the Romanian people. Availing myself of this possibility, I would like to underscore the constructive character of the traditional Moldova-Romania relationship of friendship and cooperation based on the principles of partnership and mutual support. I am expressing to you sincere gratitude for the support Romania renders to the Republic of Moldova”, said the congratulatory message.

President Igor Dodon expressed confidence that in the future, too, the two countries will preserve their active political dialog, and that “the friendly relations and interaction between our countries will be developing and consolidating in various fields for the good of both states”.

Dodon’s congratulatory message did not contain the official name of Romania’s national holiday. In Romania, December 1 is marked as the Great Unification [Marea Unire] Day dedicated to the historic unification of Romanian lands, including Bessarabia, into a united Romanian State in 1918.

The Moldovan President has repeatedly invited Klaus Iohannis to come Chisinau and stated readiness to pay a visit to Bucharest. Last week, Iohannis stated to journalists: “He [Dodon] will receive an answer [to the invitation to come to Chisinau] in due time”.

Infotag’s dossier: The Great Unification Day in Romania stems back to December 1, 1918 when the National Assembly of Romania sat in Alba Iulia city and passed a Resolution declaring the unification of all Romanians from Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina and Bessarabia with Mother Romania. Bessarabia [the mainland Moldova] remained within Romania until June 1940, when it was attached to the Soviet Union as a result of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.