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| AUTHORITIES IN CHISINAU SHOW ANTI-ROMANIAN HYSTERIA (13.12.2007) |
| (2007-12-13) |
| Last updated: 2007-12-14 13:26 EET |
Romania’s ambassador to Chisinau, Filip Teodorescu, was summoned on Wednesday at the Moldovan foreign ministry, to be informed that two diplomats from the Romanian Embassy had been declared “persona non grata” in the Republic of Moldova. The ministry did not comment on the real reasons behind the expulsions, saying only that the activity of the two was not compatible with their diplomatic statute.
At the same time, Moldova has called back its ambassador to Romania, for consultations. It is the second time in the last five years that communist authorities in Chisinau expel Romanian diplomats while on duty to the Republic of Moldova.
The first such case happened in 2002, during anti-communist protests staged in Chisinau by the democratic opposition.
In recent weeks, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has persistently accused Bucharest of a constant aggression against his country. This aggression includes the fact that more and more Moldovan citizens obtain Romanian citizenship and leave the Republic of Moldova, the poorest country in Europe and the last one on the continent to still have a communist regime.
After joining the European Union, on January 1st 2007, Romania has offered to be the spokesperson and lobbyist for the Moldovans’ EU accession aspirations, but it hurt itself against the systematic refusal of the authorities in Chisinau, who saw this offer as Romania’s attempt to regain the territories it had lost in 1940, today occupied mainly by Romanian ethnics.
As a response to the expulsion of the two Romanian diplomats, Romanian President Traian Basescu reiterated that Bucharest’s policy towards Moldova will not change:
“These measures will not push us to restrict Moldovan Romanians’ crossing the border to Romania. In my opinion, all these are provocations we have to face. . On the contrary, I will insist that the government take measures to facilitate Moldovan citizens’ access to Romanian visas, to education in Romania and also to the European Union’s and Romania’s labour markets.”
Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu expressed, in turn, his consternation towards the anti-Romanian gestures of Moldovan authorities:
“I regret that, in response to the Romanian authorities’ cooperation and support of the European aspirations of the Republic of Moldova, Moldovan authorities have chosen to make such decisions.”
Anti-Romanian decisions which, to quote Romanian daily newspaper GANDUL, “tear apart the last flower-bridge between the two sister-countries.”
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