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| A DISPUTABLE NEUTRALITY 12/03/2008 |
| (2008-03-12) |
| Last updated: 2008-03-13 15:34 EET |
In an interview carried by the “Komersant” Russian daily newspaper, the President of the Republic of Moldova (ex-Soviet with a majority Romanian population) has expressed, for the first time, optimism that the dispute over Transnister will be solved very soon. The conflict which goes back to 1990, when Transniester (a region in the east of the Republic of Moldova inhabited by a majority Russian speaking population) unilaterally declared its independence. Voronin says it’s high time the US, the EU, Ukraine and Russia adopted a declaration on Moldova’s neutrality.
The declaration should be interpreted as a special request coming from Russia, because Moldova’s neutrality is actually written in the Constitution. According to Voronin, if the Transniester issue is solved by the 2009 elections, deputies from Transniester will be accepted in the Moldovan parliament. Chisinau, Voronin added, will plead for a neutral and demilitarised Moldova. The Moldovan President also intimated that Moldova might withdraw from the GUAM, a regional organisation competing with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which also includes states like Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaidjan.
Reactions to Voronin’s interview were quick to appear. The director of the CIS Institute, Russian deputy Constantin Zatulin, believes that Voronin is interested in paying a smaller price for re-establishing Moldova’s territorial integrity but he should not resort to “petty tricks” to obtain the expected results. The president of the European Movement in Moldova, Andrei Popov, thinks that Voronin’s proposals are not feasible because Moscow wants more from the Republic of Moldova besides Moldova’s giving up NATO’s accession, and especially Moscow wants to maintain Russian troops in Transniester. Political analyst Iulian Chifu:
“What Voronin says is not new. Everybody knows of the peace plan which he attempts to promote with the help of the Kremlin”.
The analyst thinks that the turmoil caused by the rapid resolution of the Transniester conflict is a “utopia” because Chisinau has wrong perceptions of what is happening or may happen with Transniester.
But one thing is certain: the communist power in Chisinau seems willing to compromise more in the run up to next year’s elections. Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin told the “Kommersant” daily that he would sit down at the table of negotiations with anybody, even the separatist leader of Transniester, Igor Smirnov.
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