On March 27, it is 92 years of the union of Bessarabia and Romania that took place after more than 100 years of Russian occupation, as a result of the Russian-Turkish war, Info-Prim Neo reports. On March 27, 1918, Sfatul Tarii (the Country's Council) with 86 votes for, 3 against and 36 abstentions, procliamed the Union of Bessarbia and the Kingdom of Romania, conditional upon the fulfillment of the agrarian reform and respect for universal human rights. Conditions for the union also included the preservation of a certain degree of autonomy and the right to maintain Sfatul Tarii as a regional Diet. These conditions were dropped by Sfatul Tarii in November 1918, when the assembly proclaimed the unconditioned union with Greater Romania and voted its own dissolution. Support for the union was mixed. The vote would later be treated as a "quasi-unanimous" expression of the will of the Bessarabian people, but the motion only managed to pass because of a compromise with the groups hesitant about the union. The union was recognized by the European countries in the Treaty of Paris (1920). The newly-communist Russia was not represented as a party at the treaty conference. A mutual treaty between the Soviets and Romania was not signed due to the former's claims over Bessarabia. The status-quo was changed 22 years later, when, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi Germany yielded Bessarabia to the Soviet Union.