ROMANIAN MFA CONCERNED ABOUT ANTI-ROMANIAN RHETORIC OF SOME POLITICAL FORCES IN MOLDOVA

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed concern about “the anti-Romanian rhetoric of certain political circles in Moldova”, reads the Press release of the Romanian Embassy in Chisinau in connection with the recent accusations against the Consul of Romania in Balti.

On Thursday, Maxim Lebedinschi, Presidential Legal Adviser and the President’s Representative at the Constitutional Court, announced that the Moldovan Presidential Administration will shortly demand from the Government to investigate the activities of the Romanian Consul at Balti [the republic’s second-largest city]. In his words, over recent days the Presidential Administration has been receiving numerous reports that the Consul of Romania at Balti, Mihai Baciu, “is making corruption actions, prompting local governance organ representatives to sign Declarations saying that their populated areas concerned allegedly want Moldova to get united with Romania”.

The Romanian Foreign Ministry believes that these statements are well in harmony with a concrete logic of the parliamentary campaign ahead of the 2018 elections in the republic.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken notice of the information disseminated in the public area concerning the activities of the Romanian Consul General at Balti, and will make steps to check the information. The Ministry is pointing out that this is an element of a concrete logic of the local campaign to elect the mayor of a locality, and is remarking the strengthening of the rhetoric aimed against Romania being unfolded by certain political circles in Moldova”, said the document.

As was already reported by Infotag, in January the advocates of Moldova’s unification with Romania [Unirea] initiated their new campaign. In its framework, the municipal authorities of Moldovan populated areas are offered to sign Declarations in favor for the unification of the two countries. By now, Declarations have been submitted from over 40 localities – out of their total number of 1,674 in the republic (cities, towns, villages and communes).

In response, President Igor Dodon and his Party of Socialists have initiated a counter-campaign in support of the country’s independence and sovereignty. And though they commenced this work later than the unionists, more than 200 such declarations have already been signed to date.