news agency Infotag

KLIMENKO SUGGESTS SETTING UP ALTERNATIVE COMMISSION

Chisinau Municipal Council member and Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement Valery Klimenko has stood up with an idea to create an “International Scientific Commission for Studying the Consequences of the Totalitarian, Dictatorial and Anti-Democratic Regimes in the Republic of Moldova Territory in the 20th Century”. He is convinced that such an international team, unlike the already working Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, will necessarily produce objective results.     

Klimenko stated at a separate news conference in Infotag today that the existing commission, established by Acting President Mihai Ghimpu, is biased, is considering historic documents selectively and partially, and comprises “people so far from the history science”. 

“As for us, we are proposing to form a commission of prominent historians – professionals well known in Moldova and abroad, who are capable of carrying out a fundamental, thoroughly grounded and objective analysis”, Valery Klimenko said.  

In his words, negotiations have already been under way with historians – specialists on Moldova – from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Germany, Hungary, the United States, “and many of them have already given their principal consent”. 

Klimenko refrained from mentioning even a single name, but promised to announce the commission’s personal composition within one week’s time, and then struck the news conference by stating that the commission’s final report will be published in May 2010. For comparison: the Ghimpu-decreed commission has been ordered to issue its report by June 1, 2010.     

He did not explain how such a tremendous enterprise, involving many experts from different countries, can be organized and can produce such report within a two months’ time.   

Unlike the ‘Ghimpu commission’, which is studying the period from 1917 to 1991 i.e. is not touching on the activities of the Vladimir Voronin’s Moldovan Communist Party established in 1994, the ‘Klimenko commission’ is going to analyze the period from 1918 to the present day.