Solving Transnistrian conflict shall ground on Independence Declaration: European Action

The mechanism of solving the Transnistrian conflict should ground on the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova and on the Constitutional provisions on the independent and sovereign, unitary and undividable character of the state and shall not admit the sacrifice of national interests, considers the Social-Political Movement “Actiunea Europeana” (MAE). On Wednesday, March 12, the MAE leader presented his stand on the Transnistrian issue, at a news conference hosted by Info-Prim Neo. MAE believes that the peaceful and fair regulation of the Transnistrian conflict should lay on such principles as the unconditional and full withdrawal of the Russian troops and arsenal from Moldova; the demilitarization and the dissolution of the armed forces subordinated to the Tiraspol regime; the democratization and reform of the economy of Moldova’s eastern area. The talks with Russia vis-à-vis the conflict, regardless of the format they are conducted in, shall me maximally transparent, reads a declaration of MAE. The formation finds that, since the moment of proclaiming the independence to present, Moldova has suffered a continuous warfare unleashed by Russia against the country’s sovereignty. The breakaway enclave has become the most important lever through which Moldova is reduced to the status of a geopolitical appendix of Russia, where the expanding borders of the European Union and NATO should halt. The occupying Russian army illegally stays on the Moldovan soil, defying the international commitments assumed. MAE also asserts that Russia maintains the Transnistrian conflict through political, military, economic and financial assistance granted to the Tiraspol regime. The formation also blames international organisms for irresolute approach and signals out the inefficiency of the 5+2 format, as well as the inconsistent and pro-Russian policy of the Chisinau authorities. The Voronin regime represents the handiest tool to realize Russia’s imperial goals within this geopolitical area. By starting secret negotiations with Moscow, ignoring the mechanism of regulating the conflict, through Voronin’s recent “initiatives”, which are in fact ultimate conditions imposed by the Russian side, the Moldovan President commits a direct attempt at the constitutional order and at Moldova’s European and Euro-Atlantic perspectives, say the MAE leaders. Referring to President Voronin’s last statements on solving the conflict, MAE president Anatol Petrencu remarks that the head of the state does not unveil the results of his secret talks to the Parliament, Government or Chisinau’s diplomatic corps, but to a Russian newspaper. Anatol Petrencu also mentions that no international mechanism can oblige the World Powers to observe the neutrality of a state, as the President wants by adopting a declaration on Moldova’s neutrality, albeit internationally guaranteed. “It seems Voronin returned to the position of 2001, when he stated Moldova was a Cuba of Europe, that he wouldn’t allow the NATO tanks to enter Moldova and that Bryansk is behind us,” MAE’s deputy president, Ion Neagu, commented on the possibility of regulating the Transnistrian issue instead of not joining NATO. At the same time, MAE’s deputy president, Andrei Covrig, expressed confusion as to „the silence” of the Chisinau central authorities, of the diplomats and the Moldovan civil society regarding the hearings planned for March 13 in Russia’s Duma, following the request of the three unrecognized republics Abkhazia, Transnistria and South Ossetia. In an interview for the Muscovite newspaper Kommersant, the Moldovan President, Vladimir Voronin, said the Transnistrian problem would be soon solved on the basis of the Transnistrian status, together with a new declaration of Moldova’s neutrality, internationally guaranteed.