Vladimir Voronin responds to Traian Basescu's statements
“The tough appreciations of President Traian Basescu will be subjected to a special investigation within the European Union, which is bound to bear collective responsibility for the actions of a country, which caused street clashes in another country,” Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin stated in an address aired by the public television on April 15, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Vladimir Voronin stated that “certain forces slaughtering the democratic institutions during the events of April 6 and 7 threw the country backwards into the atmosphere of fear and mistrust of the early 90s.” “But those provocations failed (...). The power did not let itself attracted into that dangerous game, in which no rules are observed, a game that the Liberal opponents try to impose. Now the governance is mostly preoccupied with the tasks of joining society, curing the political trauma, which has polarized the public opinion, has led to a 'cold war' atmosphere among different political camps,” the President said.
Referring to the speech of the Romanian President in the Parliament on April 14, Vladimir Voronin said it was “an example of state revanchism from a to z.” Voronin regretted that his Romanian counterpart expressed his doubts “as to the conclusion of the European observers that the Moldovan elections were democratic and free, he dared to state that the whole population of Moldova is made of Romanians, committed to increase the organizational and financial support for all those structures which daily speak about the need to liquidate Moldova, addressed the Moldovan youth a solidarity call and promised to take all the Romanians beyond the Prut to Europe, by massively granting Romanian citizenship.” “If all those do not mean interference into Moldova's domestic affairs and instigation to continue the street disorder, then, on the basis of the international law, all those can be qualified in tougher terms,” Vladimir Voronin stated.
The President said that, during the April 7 events, he waited “in vain for a condemning response from Romania. But a strange and eloquent silence followed.” “At that critical moment, we had to declare the Romanian ambassador as persona non grata. During his mandate, that diplomat transformed the embassy he led not into a place of political dialogue between the two states, but into a place of conspiratorial meetings with different Moldovan politicians, who seek for support not on the part of our society, but on the part of the Romanian government. But it turns that the respectable diplomat behaved like that only because, for his President, there is no notion of Moldovan identity and Moldovan independence,” Vladimir Voronin said.
The Moldovan President stated that “the Basarabian issue has become an electoral theme in Bucharest,” asking himself why the Bucharest authorities still do not want to sign the basic and border treaties with Moldova.
“I consider it's time to overcome the naiveties of the early 90s and leave aside the air of superiority. As statesmen we are bound to think realistically. Otherwise, the frustrations caused by the historical obsessions can cause revanchist trends, which are both overcome and anti-European,” Voronin said.
In the end of his discourse, Vladimir Voronin insisted to reiterate the slogan used by the Communists Party in the 2009 elections - “Let's build together the European Moldova!”