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The phrase “two states – one nation” that was recently stated
by the Romanian President Traian Basescu is not accepted by Chisinau, President
Vladimir Voronin said during the program “In Depth” broadcast by
PRO TV Chisinau on Tuesday.
The chief of the Moldovan state told he does not agree with the syntagm “two
states – one nation” because there are two states that follow the
path of European integration, there are Moldovans and Romanians. Voronin mentioned
the results of the last population’s census according to which the Moldovans
are the majority ethnicity in Moldova.
Voronin said it would be better to leave the issues related to the language
and history aside and concentrate on the process of European integration.
The President said he approves of the signature of the Basic Treaty with Romania
but it must reflect the relations of the two states in compliance with the principles
of the European Union and not be a document signed between “the elder
brother” and “the smaller brother”.
Vladimir Voronin expressed indignation at the way the mass media interpreted
the declaration he made while the Russian Patriarch Alexy II was on a visit
to Chisinau as concerns the fact that the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church is
not registered. The chief of state vehemently denied that he had said this thing.
“The Bessarabian Metropolitan Church is registered. I know very well
we were compelled by the European Court of Human Rights to register it. Yes,
it exists unfortunately. Why should there be two Metropolitan Churches for one
faith?/…/ The existence of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church has a political
connotation, while the Moldovan Metropolitan Church is the traditional church
that exists for hundreds of years,” Vladimir Voronin told.
The chief of state has also denied the allegations according to which he would
have asked the Patriarch Alexy II to mediate a meeting with the Russian President
Vladimir Putin, specifying that all the conversations and meetings with his
Russian counterpart are agreed on directly or are organized by the presidential
staff.
Speaking of the Transdniestrian conflict, Vladimir Voronin said they will accept
only the documents that comply with the law on the fundamentals of Transdniestria’s
status. At the same time he confirmed that he possesses documents from Saddam
Hussein’s office which prove that Tiraspol acted as intermediary in the
sale of armament and lines of armament production to Iraq. // Reporter.MD
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