Language spoken in Moldova applauded and booed at Diaspora Congress

The representatives of the Moldovan diaspora who came together for the fifth Congress in Chisinau have different views on the language spoken in the country. A part of them applauded, while the others booed the chairman of the Odessa-based National-Cultural Association of the Moldovans from Ukraine Anatol Fetescu, when he said that Moldovan is the language spoken in Moldova, Info-Prim Neo reports. Anatol Fetescu reproached the rulers for the fact that they take into account what the Romanian politicians say and do not think about Moldova’s statehood. His discourse was interrupted for several times by indignant participants. The head of the Moldovan community in Canada’s Quebec Ala Mandacanu said that a part of the country’s problems will disappear if the politicians do not distort the historical facts and the Constitution stipulates that the Moldovans speak Romanian. Prime Minister Vlad Filat intervened, saying it is the country that unites us and we are citizens of Moldova. “Given this status, we must work and contribute to strengthening it by promoting historical truths and values,” he stated. Speaker Marian Lupu urged those attending to be Europeans. “The EU’s motto is ‘unity in diversity’. Without mutual respect and tolerance for being different, we will never be Europeans. We are citizens of this country and the nation of the independent state Moldova,” he said. The Union Council called on the participants in the fifth Congress of the Diaspora to join together abroad – the Romanians with the Romanians - and to seek Moldova’s union with Romania. It also called upon them to plead together for definitive liberation, for liquidating the consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and for achieving the century-old objective to unite the Romanians.