The pride of the country is as the pride of a child – before being proud, you must offer him a lot of love and this means effort and permanent care, education, training and offering of a rod to him for teaching him to catch fish. Only afterward do you have the moral right to demand that he should make you proud of him, Mariana Onceanu-Hadarca, a member of the Broadcasting Coordination Council, says in an article produced by IPN on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Moldova’s Independence.
According to her, on this anniversary the Republic of Moldova is not enough independent, is weak and harassed by evil interests. Mariana Onceanu-Hadarca wished the people an administration of European model and ability to organize their affairs so as to have a high level of welfare and social human relations. “We should not look for heaven elsewhere and should have the power and will to build it and actually to grow our orchard here, at home,” she stated.
Mariana Onceanu-Hadarca considers that the biggest accomplishments in the period include the children and young people who are able to learn, develop the mind and free character without restrictions and ideological prejudice and, especially, the fact that they have the chance to go and study at any school or university in the world. The freedom to choose is another big accomplishment: the fact that the people can travel freely in the world and can decide by themselves the fate by choosing to work for a budget-funded institution or a private company and by trying to develop an own business – to sell greens at the farmers market or ...to leave the country.
Among the biggest failures of the independence period are, according to her, the children and young people, that part of them that does not have access to education and training and does not have the possibility of developing, having a job and finding oneself. The cause derives from another big failure, namely the inability of the people in the Republic of Moldova to correctly manage and to profit from freedom and the inability, especially of those who had been in power, to build a real state with the rule of law. The third big failure is the discrediting of values and significance of the notions of ‘democracy and European standards’.
Mariana Onceanu-Hadarca also said that independence can be compared with a tree or an orchard that can be nice and can yield fruit despite the unfavorable weather conditions and can grow in the middle of a desert and on a rocky island if there are intelligent and hardworking people who are determined to look after it.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the declaration of Moldova’s Independence, IPN News Agency decided to depict the portrait of the current Republic of Moldova. For the purpose, it provoked a number of people, including state officials, politicians, businessmen, civil rights activists and persons without posts and titles, but who have what to say. The generic picture is entitled “Thoughts about and for Moldova”. The materials started to be published on July 18.
