Chisinau administration will inform international organisations about Communist government’s actions designed to hinder Romanian delegation’s access to Moldova

The Chisinau City Hall will notify the international organisations of the abuses committed by the Communist government aimed at hindering the entrance to Moldova of the Romanian official delegations heading for Chisinau to take part in the City Day on October 12. Though most of the Romanian delegations managed to cross the border on October 13, except the ones from Bacau and Targu Mures, following the Mayor General’s request addressed to the central authorities, Dorin Chirtoaca says that the happenings show once again that the state authorities are dominated by the Communist totalitarian Soviet mentality. At Monday’s meeting of the City Hall, the mayor said that the incident on the border was like a situation characteristic of the Soviet times, during the “iron curtain” period, and this fact will come into question in Brussels, Strasbourg and in all the European capitals. According to him, this situation will have negative consequences not only on the relations between Moldova and Romania, but also with the European Union. “Maybe the Governments of the two states are hostile towards each other, but the citizens of the European Union cannot be halted at the border only because someone does not want them to. Under the commitments made by Moldova to the EU, any citizen of the European community can enter Moldova without an invitation or justification,” the mayor said. As representative of Chisinau and of its residents, Dorin Chirtoaca expressed his disapproval with the illegal actions of the Border Guard Service employees, with the humiliation to which the Romanian delegations were subjected, forced to bear the consequences of a totalitarian thinking. Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca instructed the Foreign Relations Division to present the list of all the delegations and indicate all the persons that were stopped at Leuseni customs. The Division would submit a notification to the relevant state bodies to investigate this incident and ascertain the violations of the Labour Code, Code of Administrative Contraventions and even of the Penal Code. Though not denying that this situation had the effect of advertisement on Chisinau and the City Day, Dorin Chirtoaca said that the municipality does not need such publicity because, in the future, a guest from the EU could think twice before visiting Chisinau. In such a way, local authorities’ efforts to attract investment and come closer to the EU could be in vain. The mayor said that only the Romanian delegations had problems on the Moldovan border. The City Day was eventually attended by the delegations from Petrosani, Navodari, Targoviste, Suceava etc. In the evening of October 12, only the delegation of Bucharest municipality managed to cross the Moldovan border.