Christian-Democrats offer to iron out relations with Romania

The late arguments between Moldova and Romania are affecting first of all our fellow citizens, who, besides their reasonable need to cross unrestrained and with minimum formalities the border with Romania, wish for a sound and warm relationship between Moldova and Romania. The Christian-Democratic People’s Party stands ready to contribute by all means to improve the relations between the two capitals, PPCD leader Iurie Rosca said in his speech summing up the Parliament’s fall/winter session. According to him, the strained relationship with Romania has reached a very worrisome stage. “We must give up playing the blame game. What we need now is to resume without delay building an open, frank and constructive dialogue between Chisinau and Bucharest, to get rid of all the suspicions and artificial obstacles and build a close relationship…”, the Deputy Speaker said. Rosca thinks the course of development pursued by Moldova in 2007 was right, however, the pace and the quality of the political, institutional and economic reforms were quite modest compared to what the population expected. The three democratic institutions that are still vulnerable in Moldova and need further consolidation are the independence of the judiciary, human rights, and freedom of press, Rosca said. The PPCD leader considers that a controversial issue that has been pushed over the line is the identity polemic. In his view, the solution to this conflict is to give up mixing politics and science. As a democracy and as a state based on the rule of law, Moldova must adopt the standards and good practices of other democracies and be more tolerant to different opinions. In an open society, the principle of ethnic self-determination is an unalienable right of every citizen. To overcome identity-related disputes, the Parliament needs to adopt a special piece of legislation that would clarify and put an end to these controversies, Iurie Rosca stated.