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Voronin: riot organizers sought to ruin Moldova’s statehood

June 22, 2009

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The April 7 riot in Chisinau and the organized blocking of presidential election in the Moldovan Parliament “are links of one and the same chain”, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin stated in the interview to the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti he gave on the eve of his working visit to Moscow.

Voronin stated that the organizers of those two political enterprises did not simply seek to remove the Moldovan Communist Party from power, they had a larger-scale task set to them – to liquidate the Moldovan statehood as such.

“That was exactly what substantially differed our events from those that happened 4 years ago in Ukraine and 5 years ago in Georgia. That was a revolution of traitors, not of patriots or democrats… Honestly, I feel ashamed of having such an opposition”.

He further held that throughout the first decade following the demise of the USSR, everyone was saying that Moldova would necessarily get united with Romania.

“May be, that could really happen sooner or later. But since 2001, when our party won its first victory at parliamentary elections, situation in the country began changing strongly – and not only economically or socially. First and foremost, Moldova gave clear answers to two questions of its state development: the first was a way of strategic partnership with Russia, and second was an open declaration of the European integration priority”, said President Voronin.

In his words, these two priorities have substantially strengthened the Moldovan state’s immunity to external shocks, and substantially consolidated the republic’s sovereignty, and its external and domestic policies “have at last been made resting on the interests of a population majority”.

The President presumes that the April 7 'pogroms' in Chisinau were the last chance for some forces to bring Moldova back to where it was in the early 1990s.

“I am convinced that the forcible scenario, which was put into reality in the Chisinau central square, was a direct and hysteric reaction to the Moscow meeting of March 18. Precisely then, right after my meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, after a real perspective appeared for a country reunification, the opposition stood up with accusations of a possible rigging of the would-be elections. Somebody was losing nerves”, said Vladimir Voronin.

In his view, a campaign of blackening the Moldovan statehood in Europe would not give fruit, so its organizers decided to blockade presidential election so as to paralyze the country governance and to drive Moldova into a political and economic crisis and to a new election campaign. In such case, no matter who wins the [July 29] elections, Moldova will definitely be the loser, and this will be a precious chance for some to bring the republic to a political, economic and social fiasco, and to downgrade Moldova to a new conflict region, to a second Transnistria, as Voronin described the opposition’s scheme.

“If this had really happened, one could say adieu to Transnistria forever, and Moldova could be given into an international protectorate for 20 years or so, with its subsequent absorption by Romania. This is precisely why all what our opponents are trying to do presently, they are doing not as opponents to the Communist Party, but as opponents to Moldova. They behave as a force conscientiously provoking a serious geopolitical catastrophe that will necessarily involve Romania, and Ukraine, and Russia. That’s why the approaching parliamentary elections will in fact be a plebiscite on our independence”, stated President Vladimir Voronin.

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