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| The Border between Romanians 09/11/2010 |
| (2010-11-09) |
| Last updated: 2010-11-10 14:34 EET |
The Treaty, which is strictly technical, regulates among other things the maintenance of border areas and the way cross border roads and railways are used. What matters however are the political connotations of the Treaty.
Romania, which became a EU member in 2007, and the Republic of Moldova, a candidate to EU accession, let the visiting president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso have the pleasure to announce the signing of the Treaty and hail the agreement reached by the two neighbours.
The Treaty is a crowning of the climate of normality in Romanian-Moldovan relations that emerged after a year ago, the former pro-Russian communist government in Kishinew had been replaced by a pro-Western administration. Finally, as Romanian Foreign Minister, Teodor Baconschi pointed out, the treaty in itself refutes a string of communist accusations brought to Romania’s alleged expansionist ambitions.
Teodor Baconschi: “ We wish this border would gradually disappear when all conditions were met and would become an EU inner border. We believe that we thus deter the obsessive statements made by certain political circles about an imaginary irredentist agenda of Romania”.
Established on the Eastern Romanian territories annexed by the former Soviet Union in 1940, the Republic of Moldova proclaimed its independence on August 27th 1991, after the failure of the neo-Bolshevik coup in Moscow. On the same day, Romania was the first country in the world to recognize the statehood of its new neighbour, whose sovereignty and integrity it has always advocated.
Nevertheless, impenitent Romanianphobes, the communists who were in power in Kishinew over 2001-2009, made use of the fact that the Treaty had not been signed to accuse Romania, also turning the issue into an electoral topic of discussion in the run up to the parliamentary elections due on November 28th. And now, their maniac accusations have no more object and the electoral topic has disappeared from their agenda.
That is why, Moldovan liberal-democrat Prime Minister Vlad Filat expressed his belief that…: “The future Parliament of the Republic of Moldova will have the necessary membership to ensure a democratic governance of the country, its European undertaking and in the same context, to ratify this important document too.”
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