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| OPPOSED VISIONS ON BILATERAL RELATIONS (15.10.2007) |
| (2007-10-15) |
| Last updated: 2007-10-16 15:00 EET |
Invited by the mayor of Chisinau, Liberal Dorin Chirtoaca, to the festivities marking the Day of the Moldovan Capital, delegates of several Romanian Town Halls were turned back at the common border, without Moldovan custom officers providing them any clear explanations. Nationals of EU Member States don't need a visa to enter the Republic of Moldova. Moreover, Bucharest and Chisinau concluded an agreement under which Romanians only need a passport to cross the common border. President Traian Basescu, who regards Moldova's coming closer to Europe as a foreign policy priority, described the situation as inadmissible.
In turn, PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu, expressed his disappointment, stressing that Chisinau's practices are contrary to the European principles. And they were right, because only one day after the incident, European Commissioner for Justice, Franco Frattini, asked for explanations from Chisinau. The most plausible explanation would be President Vladimir Voronin's whimsical nature. With higher education studies made in Bucharest and no complexes in declaring himself an ethnic Romanian, Dorin Chirtoaca, the young mayor of Chisinau is the new leader of the pro-western opposition in Moldova. And as the local election indicated throughout the Republic a fast erosion of the communist authorities' popularity, Chirtoaca must, in their opinion, be undermined and annihilated.
In Bucharest, this situation has been understood also by Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu, who described the border incident as unfriendly, premeditated and political in nature. But that did not prevent him from “patenting” a diplomatic and linguistic weirdness. He and Romania's ambassador to Brussels, Lazar Comanescu, validated juridically the so-called “Moldovan language”, an artificial concept, invented by Stalin in order to accredit the idea of a people different from the Romanian people and to justify the 1940 land annexation. At the end of the text of the Agreement facilitating the visa regime, signed between Chisinau and Brussels, there is a reference according to which the text was drawn up in the languages of the EU Member States and in the Moldovan language.
The existence of the Moldovan language is not recognised by any serious, competent linguist. With regard to the accusations that it accepted an official EU agreement whose content includes the wording “Moldovan language”, the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest replied that the participation of the Romanian side in the agreement “does not commit Romania to recognising or accepting the language referred to as Moldovan”. The Romanian officials say they signed the document in order to support co-operation between the European Union and Moldova and so as not to hinder the conclusion of a very useful agreement on the movement of persons.
(Bogdan Matei and Cezar Irimia)
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