Movement for National Revival and Liberation crowned in Independence Declaration

The Independence Declaration of the Republic of Moldova was adopted on 27 August 1991 with the vote of some one million people gathered on the Great National Assembly Square (some ¼ of the population) and by 274 parliamentarians of 300 elected in the first Parliament, Info-Prim Neo reminds. Thus, they announced the appearance of a new state on the world’s map and asked other states and governments to recognize its independence in conformity with the norms of international law: “TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the Parliaments of many states in their statements consider the agreement concluded on 23 August 1939 between the Government of the USSR and the Government of Germany as void ab initio and demand the liquidation of the political-legal consequences of this pact, as remarked by the International Conference "The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its consequences for Basarabia" through the Chisinau Declaration, adopted on 28 June 1991; REMINDING that in the last years, the democratic movement of national liberation of the population from the Republic of Moldova have reconfirmed their aspirations for freedom, independence and national unity, expressed in the final documents of the great national assemblies in Chisinau on 27 August 1989, 16 December 1990 and 27 August 1991, through the laws and decisions of the Moldovan Parliament on decreeing the Romanian language as the state language and on reintroducing the Latin alphabet, of 31 August 1989, the state flag on 27 April 1990, the state coat of arms on 3 November 1990, and on changing the official name of the state on 23 May 1991,” the Parliament of the R. of Moldova solemnly proclaims, on 27 August 1991, in the name of the whole population of the Republic of Moldova and on front of the entire world... THE PARLIAMENT OF THE R. OF MOLDOVA SOLEMNLY PROCLAIMS: the Republic of Moldova is a sovereign state, independent and democratic, free to decide its present and future, without any interference from outside, in conformity with the holy ideals and aspirations of the people in the historical and ethnic space of its national evolvement”. The Declaration establishes the political and the economic strategy of the R. of Moldova on long term: “the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova is seen as an imperative of time, as component part of the European processes, of democratization, of asserting the freedom, the independence and the national union, of building states of law and of passing to market economy.” Stressing on the democratic orientation of the new independent state, the Declaration underlined the guarantee of exerting social, economic, cultural rights and political freedoms for Moldovan citizens, for all the national, ethnic, language and religious groups, in conformity with principles and norms international recognized. At the same time, the Government of the USSR was asked “to start talks with the Government of the Republic of Moldova regarding the cessation of the illegal state o occupying it and to withdraw the Soviet troops from the national territory of the Republic of Moldova.” The Independence declaration consecrates the official name of the state language as Romanian.