"Green Alliance" suggests planting trees instead of barbed wire fence

The Ecologist Party “Green Alliance” proposes planting trees in the place where the barbed wire fence separated Moldova from Romania. "A corridor appeared along the river Prut that must immediately become an ecological protection area,” the party's secretary general Andrei Dumbraveanu said in a news conference held at Info-Prim Neo on March 3. According to Andrei Dumbraveanu, it will be opportune for the Government to implement this initiative by April 5, when the campaign “Plant a Tree for Our Eternity” is carried out. The wood along the Prut would occupy about 1,500 hectares. Andrei Dumbraveanu said the trees could be planted with money from the Ecological Fund or from smelting the barbed wire fence that was removed. He also said such green border green areas were established between the Czech Republic and Germany, Germany and Austria and Moldova should do the same. In another connection, the secretary of the Ecologist Party criticized the Government for not carrying out a wide campaign to inform the people about the Small-Scale Border Traffic Agreement. “It is already three days of the coming into force of the agreement, but the people know nothing about this European integration initiative,” Andrei Dumbraveanu said. “We propose and are ready to provide support to the local TV channels that want to inform the population,” said the vice president of the Ecologist Party “Green Alliance” Anatol Prohnitski. The barbed wire fence along the border with Romania started to be taken away on February 10, under an ordinance signed by Prime Minister Vlad Filat.