President Voronin claims Russia influenced election returns in Moldova
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Friday, 11 November 2005
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Moldova.org - Falls Church, VA, USA
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin thinks the Russian Federation influenced the results of the March 2005 parliamentary elections in Moldova.
In his interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper of Moscow published today, Voronin stated that due to that attack by Russia? the ruling Moldovan Communist Party has short-received at least 20 mandates in the 101-set legislative forum.
Thank to you, Russians, our party has lost the constitutional majority in parliament and the right to change the Main Law. Due to your attack during the parliamentary elections, we have lost minimum 20 seats, because you scared off the Gagauzes and Russian-speakers?, explained the Moldovan leader.
Voronin further held he has set himself a goal to settle the Transnistria problem and to restore the countrys territorial integrity.
For 3 years, I had tried to do this with Russias help, but Russia kept on placing entirely wrong accents in the Transnistrian settlement process. So, I addressed other international mediators, too?, he said.
Vladimir Voronin categorically rejected the widespread assertions that by his refusal to sign the Kozak Memorandum he had, allegedly, insulted President Putin, and that he [Voronin] had decided to abstain from Memorandum signature after his meeting with U.S. Ambassador Heather M. Hodges who had, allegedly, shown him a fax message from the U.S. Department of State. Voronin said in the interview the Kozak Memorandum was impossible to sign because a new, non-discussed clause had appeared in the document at the last moment stipulating that a Russian military base was supposed to be unfolded in Moldova for a 20-year period.
President Voronin hopes the United States will force Russia to resolve the Transnistria problem.
I count on achieving an agreement with Russia, because I have never quarreled with Russia, and shall never do?, emphasized Vladimir Voronin.
If a normal, free referendum on country reunification were held in Transnistria now, 70 percent of the Transnistrian population would ardently say yes [to the reunification]?, Voronin said, remarking that the residents of Transnistria have lately been obtaining Moldovan passports on a massive scale, that 7 thousand young people from Transnistria are receiving higher education in Chisinau, and that some 10 thousand Transnistrians come daily to Chisinau for work.
The President believes that to resolve the Transnistria problem, the region first needs to undergo democratization. Under the current regime in Transnistria, no free expression of will is possible there. All these years, the Smirnov and Co. has been engaged in banditry. Since as long ago as 1992, their hands have been remaining in blood. I cant sit at one table with the murderers of my friends, relatives and comrades?, stated the Moldovan President. // Infotag
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