No Modernization under Economic Tutelage Chains – president

“Moldova aspires to receive the role of full rights member of the European Union, but at the same time, it acknowledges that this objective includes a wide internal political and social-economic modernization, which requires not only enthusiasm and energy, but also time”, declared the president Vladimir Voronin at the XIII Summit of the Heads of State of Central Europe that took place on May 19, in Varna, Bulgaria. The priorities of “this modernization” are based, according to the president on three essential tasks: building a functional and efficient democratic system, fighting corruption and settling down the Transnistrian conflict. He mentioned that “the freedom of mass-media, access to a qualified justice constitutes an unconditioned standard of modern life”. “We advanced significantly in this direction, but still many problems are expected to appear. On some reformation directions we have resorted to interesting representation models of the society’s interests. In this way we confirmed by law the control of the opposition over the way the public finances are used, over the Central Electoral Commission and special services”, declared Voronin. “The gradual fight with corruption represents for us a political task”, states the head of state. “The virus of corruption must not be introduced in Europe, it must be localized. No modernization will ever exist as long as the society will not get rid of the guardianship “chains” and of the bureaucratic control over each initiative, regardless of the fact it tackles economic or social and cultural areas”. “Although we have created sufficiently good laws in order to impel the economic growth and the social and cultural development, these processes are, mostly, hampered by our enormous bureaucratic apparatus. In addition, the president mentioned that the task that regards the Transnistrian crises resides in the demilitarization of the region, starting some proper democratic processes, unleashing those 700 thousand citizens out of the social-economic ghetto, created artificially on the banks of Nistru, “At present, EU and Ukraine generated a new environment within the settling process and hopes that soon Moldova will be able to present itself as an unitary and democratic state”, concluded his speech Vladimir Voronin.