President Igor Dodon will decree the constitution of a commission for organizing and holding events to celebrate 100 years of the declaration of the Moldovan Democratic Republic and the appointment of the first government. The decision was announced in a meeting with a group of historians, IPN reports.

According to President Dodon, the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Moldovan Democratic Republic and the appointment of the first government is an event of exceptional importance that is significant for the continuity of the statehood of the Moldovan people, in the historical and ethnical context of its development as a nation.

Igor Dodon will request the Government of the Republic of Moldova to delegate representatives to provide assistance in implementing the program that will be worked out by the jubilee commission.

The Moldovan Democratic Republic was a state whose independence from the Russian Empire was proclaimed by the People’s Council of Bessarabia, which was the representative body of the population, on December 2, 1917. Initially, the Moldovan Democratic Republic was declared a component part of the future federal Russia, but on January 24, 1918 the People’s Council unanimously voted to proclaim the independence of the Moldovan Democratic Republic. On March 27, 1918, there was adopted a decision on the union with Romania.