Russia hopes Moldova will come to have a stable leadership after elections
Russia hopes that after the November 28 elections the Republic of Moldova will acquire a strong and stable government, the Russian Federation's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, Valery Kuzmin stated at the international public forum called "The Moldovan Statehood and Democracy after Overcoming the Political Crisis. The Future of the Russian-Moldovan Relations", held in Chisinau on Monday.
The diplomat said that Moldova has not yet overcome the lengthy period of political instability, and that Russia hopes the November 28 elections here will be fair and democratic.
"The programs of the governing Alliance for European Integration, the Government and most political parties contain, to a greater or lesser extent, a provision on strategic partnership with the Russian Federation. The two countries maintain economic relations. Moldovan citizens work in our country. Russian natural gas comes here. Bilateral trade develops. But on the political level, everything would remain only on the level of political declarations. The sweet-sounding formula of a strategic partnership remains, regretfully, just a declaration without a concrete content", presumes Ambassador Valery Kuzmin.
In his words, Russia will be undertaking efforts to restart the political negotiation process on Transnistria and to bring it to settlement.
He said, "One could hardly expect concrete, far-reaching decisions from present-day meetings, because the Moldovan side has not yet appointed its official plenipotentiary representatives authorized to conduct negotiations. In addition, the meetings held lately were unofficial ones".
Commenting the [November 9] letter, which Moldova's Acting President Mihai Ghimpu sent to the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with a request to help withdraw Russian troops from Transnistria, Ambassador Valery Kuzmin said it was an attempt to add uncertainty to the situation and to mislead the public opinion, "and to respond to this appeal would mean to make the letter author's game. If need be, we will issue an official commentary".
Yelena Miskova, Director of the Priznaniye [Recognition] Foundation for Humanitarian Ties (Russia), said that like it was a year ago, Russia continues to be strongly interested in Moldova's having a strong state power at least for the nearest 4 years, so that Moscow could build more or less long-term relations with Chisinau.
She said, a year ago the most important topic here was European integration, and great hopes were laid on it. But even now, no progress can been seen in this direction, though Russia realizes how important it is for the republic.
According to Alexei Ostrovsky, Chairman of the Russian State Duma [parliament] Standing Committee for CIS Affairs, Moldova takes advantage of its chances and possibilities in the Commonwealth of Independent States far from fully because, he believes, Moldova is trying to get self-isolated, instead of making efforts to build up its role and significance in the CIS.
Ostrovsky presumes that some Chisinau politicians, who are supported by the West, and their Romanian colleagues try to develop events here in a way to have Moldova quit the CIS and isolate it from Russia.
"They openly daydream about Moldova's losing its statehood and national identity, try to drag Moldova into Romania, and on Romania's shoulders - to drive it into the European Union. But the European Union is not ready to accept the Republic of Moldova", said the Russian parliamentarian.
In his words, on November 28 the Moldovan nation will in fact be choosing its future - either to be with Russia and the CIS, or without them.
"The republic will be electing politicians that should promote Moldova's interests and place the Moldovan people's interests above their own political ambitions. But if the situation does not change after the elections, this will be a deplorable consequence of the policy being conducted now by the current Moldovan authorities", said Alexei Ostrovsky.
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