The Big Hall of the Presidential Building, where the first Parliament signed the Declaration of Independence, will house a gallery with photocopies of the main founding documents of the country and with pictures of the main personalities who contributed in time to strengthening Moldova’s statehood, President Igor Dodon stated in a festivity staged at the Presidential Building on February 2 on the occasion of the 660th anniversary of the foundation of the Moldovan State, IPN reports.
“Today, we came together here, in this hall, to celebrate a crucial historical event – the foundation of the Moldovan statehood in 1359, 660 years ago. This is a significant jubilee that shows that the wish to have the own state has a very old history, of over half a millennium,” said President Igor Dodon, who enumerated some of the decisive moments of the early history. He noted that in the context of the traditionalist doctrines about the state and nation, Moldova had and has all the characteristic of a distinct state whose main population was formed by Moldovans, bearers of the identity, language, culture, mentality and memory of the Moldovan history.
Igor Dodon said today it is especially important that the statesmen, people of culture and all the citizens know the history of the Moldovan statehood and study its dramatic and glorious pages. “I’m confident that time will come when we will also have a holiday of national conciliation, as the French people and the Russians have. We should realize that regardless of our political, ideological views, we have one Motherland, one Country – Moldova,” he stated.
“660 years ago, in 1359, a new state appeared on the map of Europe – Moldavia – of which we formed part since its foundation and this was recognized internationally on February 2, 1365. Developing in difficult historical conditions, our people, in the course of centuries, kept the tendency of statehood, the tendency of national identity – Moldovans and the mother tongue, Moldovan language, while the state fulfilled its mission at regional level, in all its existence periods,” stated former Deputy Speake and ex-president of the Constitutional Court Victor Pușcaș.
Attending the event, Moldova’s second President Petru Lucinschi said this event is an occasion for remembering the very difficult historical moments and of discussing the steps that should be taken to develop Moldova so that it becomes prosperous and comfortable for living. What happens today goes being the limits of common sense and can have unfavorable consequences. Society is divided and, in conditions of a division marked by hatred, it is impossible to build something. The people should be untied around a cause, but something like this is not yet witnessed.
As to the relations and the union with Romania, Petru Lucinschi said a project is needed that should be discussed together with historians at the level of the European Union so as to agree the development model of the two states that have the same language and culture. The concept of good relations with the West and the East and neutrality are correct positions.
On the occasion of the event, President Igor Dodon signed a decree to confer state awards on a number of personalities.
