Chisinau, January 20 (Infotag). The “United European Moldova” public movement today convened a news conference in Infotag to present its own alternative plan of Transnistrian conflict settlement.

Movement leader Roman Mihaes said that, according to the document, the Republic of Moldova is a territorially integral state consisting of 6 equal-right regions – Chisinau, Bendery, Tiraspol (Transnistria), Gagauzia, Cahul, and Balti.

The plan reads that Moldova is a parliamentary republic, with a unicameral parliament as its supreme legislative organ. Elections to it will be held on a mixed system. The forum will have 111 deputies: 51 to be elected by party tickets, and 60 from nominal regional constituencies. The new parliament is to be elected not later than February 15, 2005.

A new Constitution is to be drafted by a commission consisting of region representatives. The Constitution is to be adopted through a nation-wide referendum by not later than November 30, 2004. The plan says that the Transnistrian region may secede from the Republic of Moldova only if the country’s statehood is abolished.

The organization proposes to name the official language in the country as “Moldo-Romanian” to be based on the Latin alphabet. Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Gagauzian should have a status of regional, working languages.

The drafters wrote that Russia ought to withdraw its troops from Transnistria in conformity with OSCE Summit decisions adopted in Istanbul and Porto. The Russian troops should be replaced with a multi-national military contingent to act under the auspices of the OSCE, United Nations and the mediator countries during one year’s period.

Roman Mihaes believes that the guarantor of plan realization should be an international committee of guarantors to be formed of the European Union, the United States, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, the United Nations and the OSCE for a period of 4 years with a mandate to be valid till the next ordinary parliamentary election in Moldova to be held in early 2009.

The movement leader pointed out that similar constructions of a state exist in Italy and Spain. In his firm belief, all the projects for the Transnistrian conflict settlement, offered heretofore by other countries, international structures and political parties, are unrealizable, whereas regionalization of Moldova may be perceived and appreciated by all stakeholders.

Roman Mihaes said his organization was not going to railroad its plan with the help of whatever political parties. “We have proposed this document on behalf of the civil society, but if political parties accept it fully or partially, we will be only glad”, the leader said.

The public movement sent the plan to foreign embassies in Chisinau. Roman Mihaes said the organization had already received a reply from the U.S. Embassy which wrote that, possibly, it would take the document into account in the process of work on Transnistrian settlement.