On Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrated today, MP Oazu Nantoi, president of the parliamentary friendship group with Ukraine, wished the Ukrainian people “a victorious peace”.
“While the Republic of Moldova has modest resources, we are on the side of freedom, justice, and the democratic world that condemns the aggression of the Russian Federation and supports Ukraine”, declared the parliamentarian.
“The Russian Federation’s frontal aggression against Ukraine clearly demonstrated that the Republic of Moldova supports Ukraine by all means possible, especially in the refugee issue. And today the Republic of Moldova is aware of the fact that Ukraine defends us. It is obvious that if Ukraine had not resisted, then it would have been our turn”, said Oazu Nantoi.
The parliamentarian noted that the relationship between Moldova and Ukraine saw several phases. First was the “phase of chaos” after the dissolution of the USSR, when the armed conflict took place on the left of the Nistru, with “Ukrainian nationalists participating in hostilities on the side of the separatist forces”. Later it turned out that there are several unresolved issues between Moldova and Ukraine that required approaches based on international law, such as property disputes, the wish of Moldova to have access to the sea, the delimitation of the borders, the regime of the Nistru River. “Things changed dramatically after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Ukraine then took Moldova’s side, acknowledging that the so-called 5+2 negotiation format for the Transnistrian conflict settlement was a trap for Moldova created by Russia so as to prevent the reunification of the Republic of Moldova and the emergence of a viable solution to the Transnistrian problem”, Oazu Nantoi added.
Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine were established on 10 March 1992. The Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation, signed on 23 October 1992 and in effect since 5 January 1997, laid the legal foundation of an extensive bilateral relationship, covering all essential areas of cooperation between the two states.
