Unionist movement pleads for unification of Moldova with Romania

Members and sympathisers of the Unionist Movement of Moldova pleaded for the unification of Moldova with Romania, in the National Opera Square, on Sunday, December 3. The Movement’s leader, Ilie Bratu, stated that the member of the organization protest against “the authorities’ sardonic attitude towards a great part of the society, wishing to eliminate the consequences of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, towards those who understand that this state failed and cannot exist anymore by itself”. If the independence of this state is carried on, after 20 – 25 years the Romanian nation in the Republic of Moldova will disappear – Bratu stated. According to the cited source, the main objective of the Unionist Movement is “to consolidate the society in its ideal of the country’s unification and the necessity to reintegrate the territory from Eastern side of the Prut River to Romania”. “It is not our children, who should realize the unification, not future generation, not future parliaments, but we – those who stayed here, when 1 million people have already left the country, and 500,000 already submitted requests for obtaining Romanian citizenship”, - stated Ilie Bratu. The unionists’ intention is to strengthen the territorial structures in the next months, to organize the Congress of constituting the social-political formation, to submit documents for registering at the Ministry of Justice, so that on April 8, 2007 the 3rd Republican Citizens’ Assembly is summoned, in which the formation will request the dismissal of all communist authorities. Bratu claims that in case that the Movement will succeed in consolidating the society around the country’s reintegration ideal, the unification will produce via parliamentary elections, on the Georgia’s model. The Leader of the unionists adds that the Movement hopes to receive the support of the Forum of Romanians from Moldova. “If the members of this formation would understand their identity with the Forum does not impede them to join a social-political movement, if people would rise together – we could organize fresh elections”, stated Bratu. The unionist Movement of Moldova was created on November 6, 2005. The organization meets more than 3,000 members and has 10 subsidiaries in 10 raions of the country.