The local branch in Moldova of the Black Sea University Foundation (BSUF) was inaugurated in Chisinau. The event’s special invitee was the founder and chairman of the geopolitical intelligence and consulting agency Stratfor George Friedman, IPN reports.
BSUF president Dan Dungaciu underlined the importance of opening the branch in Chisinau, given the specific features of the political process in the country. “There is not politics, but geopolitics in Moldova. There are no political parties, but geopolitical parties and, after every election, we wait for the final results so as to find out not the ideology that will govern Moldova, but the geopolitical orientation of the country,” he stated. The analyst said the fact that the visit by the Stratfor founder and chairman to Chisinau takes place in the context of the conflict in Ukraine and of the start of the election campaign in Moldova is not a coincidence.
Stratfor chairman George Friedman gave a lecture on the geopolitical situation in the region. According to him, the Black Sea is the eye of a storm: in the south the military campaign ISIS; in the east the still tense and unstable situation in Caucasus; in the north the conflict in Ukraine and Russia, and only in the West, in Romania and Bulgaria, there is stability. Moldova plays a minor role in this scenario, while the results of the elections in Ukraine are probably even more important than those of the elections in Moldova. Realistic geopolitical and security analyses are needed to reveal the real situation and to suggest how it should be.
President of the BSUF Board of Directors, Ambassador Liviu Bota said the formation and research are the primary objectives of the Black Sea University Foundation. Most of the current Romanian experts in regional security and geopolitics are former beneficiaries of the courses staged by the BSUF. The opening of the branch in Chisinau forms part of the foundation’s plans to set up branches in all the countries of the Black Sea Basin, the branch in Istanbul being the next one to be opened.
Registered officially on March 25, 2014, the BSUF branch in Moldova is an apolitical noncommercial, nongovernmental organization without members, with distinct and separate patrimony from the founder’s patrimony. BSUF Romania has now a consultative status under UN/ECOSOC, works under the aegis of the Romanian Academy and is the regional Black Sea point of the International Ocean Institute. The Foundation was created in 1992.
