If Romania had not supported us in Nistru war we wouldn’t have resisted, Mircea Snegur

“If Romania had not offered us its support, Moldova wouldn’t have been able to resist in the Nistru war. I wouldn’t reveal more. You can draw conclusions yourselves. Afterward, we had the possibility of giving this support back, also in an interesting way. The people should know how things happened in the past and some of these things can be revealed now. We enjoyed full support from the then administration of Romania,” the first president of Moldova Mircea Snegur said on Friday, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. While the members of the new Government were being sworn in at the Presidential Palace, some of the members of the first independent Moldovan Government met in Chisinau at the Academy of Economic Sciences to participate in the launch of the book “Atitudini in ani de rastriste” (“Attitudes in Difficult Times”) written by the first Prime Minister of Moldova Valeriu Muravski. ”This book shows that the contemporary history of Moldova did not start in 2001, when the Communists came to power, as they like saying, but at the beginning of the 1990s. An important role in that period was played by the Muravski Government. It initiated the economic reforms, the cooperation with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It was a naivety to think that the transition period will be short and we will soon have a free market economy,” Snegur said. Petre Roman, who was the Premier of Romania when Moldova declared its independence, stressed that “today the Parliament of Moldova confirmed a Government that turns the history wheel to where there was a bifurcation at a certain moment”. “I say bifurcation because I do not want to say dissolution. The events that took place between 1990 and 2001 have been taken out of memory as if they did not exist. But in that period Moldova developed together with Europe, built democratic institutions. We should not forget that relations started to be established. Of course, there could be overthrows. Those overthrows could have been avoided, but it is good that they remained behind, I think. The reestablishment of democracy is the result of the own efforts and wishes of the Moldovans. This is very important for all those who love democracy,” Roman said. Speaking about the events related in the book, Valeriu Muravski said that the first Moldovan officials did not have experience and encountered a lot of difficulties, but there were many patriots among them. “About 20 years have passed, but, unfortunately, we have not made much progress. Today’s leaders are more mature. At least Iurie Rosca is not among them,” he said.