The era of frozen conflicts is coming to an end and increased attention should be therefore devoted to the resolution of the frozen conflict in the Transnistrian region, ex-Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Alexandru Flenchea, director of the Association “Initiative for Peace”, stated in a public debate hosted by IPN.
Alexandru Flenchea made reference to the conflicts in Caucasus, the Balkans and Middle East, which had been frozen for many years and started to unfreeze in the recent past. In this regard, Moldova should also devote increased attention to the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict.
“This is the main and most serious threat to our national security. This doesn’t diminish somehow the importance of issues related to energy, the environment, hybrid or conventional threats,” said the ex-Deputy Premier, noting that to avoid the unfreezing of the conflict according to an unpredictable scenario, as it happens in other areas, the settlement of this conflict should be unfrozen. “We must admit that the resolution of the conflict was put on hold somehow implicitly and tacitly a long time ago.”
He underlined in particular the necessity of focusing on citizens’ security. “When I speak about the security of each person apart, I don’t speak only about the individual rights and freedoms that by definition, without any strategy, should be simply respected day by day, based on the Constitution and the legislation we have. But when the Republic of Moldova, following conventional or any other types of aggression, loses its independence and sovereignty, this affects the safety and security of each person apart,” said Alexandru Flenchea.
According to him, when any kind of geopolitical, natural or technogenic disasters occur, the safety of each person is affected. “Our life can be affected by anything - an energy crisis, for example. Each of us had such an experience last winter. Each of us adjusted the life somehow – the way of living, of heating the home, of economizing when we want it or not. This definitely affected the life of each person. Things should be regarded from this perspective as I repeat – the state is what the people are,” noted the director of the Association “Initiative for Peace”.
The public debate entitled “Country’s security: dangers, solutions, novelties” was the 292nd installment of IPN’s project “Developing Political Culture through Public Debates” that is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.
