The Nistru war veterans scheduled an auto marathon on the Chisinau-Tiraspol-Chisinauroad entitled “Veterans for Peace” for March 2. According to the organizers, it will be a solidarity event of the people from both sides of the Nistru who consider that the Transnistrian conflict is artificial. The marathon will be staged in connection with the Memory Day that is marked to remember those who were killed in the armed conflict of 1992. Details about the program will be published additionally on the Facebook page of the National Union of Veterans of the Independence and Integrity War.
In a news conference at IPN, the Union’s head Radu Prisac said that those who suffered as a result of this war still carry the undeserved burden of this. “During 28 years, each government, regardless of its course, had the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict on their agendas, but we are all witness to the complete incapacity of these governments,” stated Radu Prisac. According to him, the Transnistrian conflict is a whim of the politicians from Tiraspol and from Chisinau and this conflict can be solved without any special conditions. The sides should only sit at a round table.
The Union’s president of honor Eduard Maican said that this year it will be 20 years of the initiation of the Memory March. An increasing number of comrades depart this life, but the dispute remains unsolved. The veterans want peace, want to communicate with those from the left side of the Nistru. Preconditions are needed for ensuring cohesion and understanding so that the people are not split.
The head of the Union’s local organization in Soroca Alexandru Cimbriciuc noted that the people from both sides of the Nistru do not have negative feelings towards each other and this thing should be admitted. The war veterans, by the planned marathon, will prove that peace cannot be kept by force and it can be achieved only by understanding.
Valeriu Cerba, author of a number of books about the Transnistrian conflict, said the territory of Transnistria is a bomb that is ready to explode and the button is at the Kremlin. The efforts made by the Moldovan administration should be aimed at bringing back the settlement process to the juridical coordinates of the international law and the Moldovan laws, while the involved subjects should not try to reinvent the law, but should apply it. The law should be placed at the forefront in the negotiations.
A news conference will be given on March 2 to inform how the event took place.
