Barbed wires to be removed from Moldova-Romania border

January 14, 2010

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The barbed-wire lines, stretching for dozens of kilometers along the Moldo-Romanian border on the eastern bank of the Prut River, shall be dismantled and removed from the face of Earth before March 2010, as per the plan just approved by the Moldovan Government.

This work has been entrusted to the national Border Service and the local authorities of the Cahul, Leova, Ungheni raions and Costesti village. However, wire installations around the Padurea Domneasca natural reserve and the Costesti-Stinca hydroelectric power station shall be preserved.

According to the said plan, in the nearest days profiled governmental officials will hold a meeting with the raion administrations concerned to negotiate and define financial and labor force resources needed for the work.

The Soviet authorities began building barbed wire lines on the Romanian border yet in 1940. The installations were partially removed in the early 1990s. However, some 80 kilometers of the lines have remained in the Ungheni raion until now. In 2008, the Ungheni Raion Council passed a resolution on eliminating the wires, but judiciary instances recognized the resolution as unlawful, so it was not enforced.

Infotag, Moldovan news agency