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| CHISINAU, UNLEASHED AGAINST ROMANIA 20/12/2007 |
| (2007-12-20) |
| Last updated: 2007-12-21 17:50 EET |
The Bucharest daily newspaper GARDIANUL bluntly writes: “Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin’s paranoia towards everything reminding him of Romania has reached its climax”. On Wednesday, Radio Romania’s correspondent to the Republic of Moldova (a former Soviet republic with a majority Romanian speaking population) fell victim to the communist head-of-state’s fits. Together with the correspondents of the Romanian National Press Agency Rompres and the television station Prima TV, Radio Romania correspondent was denied access to Voronin’s press conference.
Still, the Romanian journalists received from the pro-Western Moldovan newspaper TIMPUL a recording of the President’s statements, which bring nothing new to the picture. Voronin launched a maniac attack against neighbouring Romania. The Moldovan President has secreted Romanian-phobia his entire life. A former activist of the single party and a general in the repressive Soviet apparatus, Voronin had to be worthy of his positions by promoting Stalinist ideas.
In 1940, when the Russians occupied Romanian eastern territories which currently make the Republic of Moldova, Moscow tried to justify its actions by crediting the existence of a so-called Moldovan people, speaking a language other than Romanian. Specialists from Romania and Moldova or the Western world ( and after the fall of the Kremlin communist regime even those from Russia), reject such an appalling distinction and point out the historical and cultural union between the two states. The linguistic argument is actually a weak pretext.
This month, Chisinau expelled, with no arguments, two Romanian diplomats, evoking Cold War practices. Making up foreign enemies and unleashing, once again, his anger against Bucharest, President Voronin tries to cover up, in a pre-electoral year, the total failure of his two successive presidential terms.
He is further than ever from keeping his promise of re-establishing Chisinau’s authority on the breakaway region of Transdniester, in the east of the Republic of Moldova. The illusion of the revival of the economy was shattered, while in all specialized classifications Moldova still ranks as the poorest European state. Any ambitions for a European integration seem ridiculous as long as the despotic and abusive communist power does not even fulfil Brussels’s political requirements.
Speaking for Romania, Romanian President Traian Basescu said that Bucharest would not take similar measures and it would not respond to Chisinau’s challenges. He recalled that communism did not succeed anywhere and said he was convinced that it would also fail in the Republic of Moldova.
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