MOLDOVAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CALLS DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS TO ABSTAIN FROM INTERFERING INTO MOLDOVA’S HOME AFFAIRS

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration has called on foreign diplomatic representations to abstain from interfering into the Republic of Moldova’s domestic affairs, reads the ministerial Commentary issued following certain statements concerning the annulment by the Moldovan Constitutional Court of the Law on the functioning of languages in Moldova.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration is addressing to diplomatic representations in the Republic of Moldova and to their diplomatic personnel to demonstrate – in compliance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) – respect for the laws, resolutions and institutions of the accrediting state and to abstain from commentaries that can be qualified as an interference into the state’s internal affairs”, reads the document published on the Ministry’s official website.

The Ministry’s Statement appeared right after the Russian Embassy in Chisinau had condemned the Moldovan Constitutional Court’s recognition of the Law on the functioning of languages in Moldova as non-constitutional.

A little earlier, Romania’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, Daniel Ionita, welcomed the Constitutional Court’s judgment and stated that the Law [if approved] would be a return to the past.

“The Republic of Moldova is a relatively young democratic state that appeared in 1991 with the help of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union. The Declaration’s central element is related precisely to the language, culture, tradition. Thanks to this, separation from the former empire became possible”, said Ionita.