While Moldovan President Maia Sandu asks Russia to provide his country with a vaccine against COVID-19, her team members continue to poison Moldovan-Russian relations and destroy everything that has been developed in the areas of mutual cooperation in previous years, politnavigator.net writes.
Oazu Nantoi, a member of parliament from the pro-presidential PAS party, who is one of the most aggressive anti-Russian hawks of the Moldovan politicians, erupted with another batch of scandalous statements against ex-President Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists he leads. He accused the PSRM – neither more nor less – of attacking the sovereignty of the Republic of Moldova.
The reason for this statement was the new program of the Party of Socialists, adopted by the congress of the party on January 30 this year. Among the points of this program in the section dedicated to the Transnistrian settlement, there is a return to the implementation of the “Primakov Memorandum” of 1997.
The 1997 Moscow Memorandum was seen as a breakthrough in the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. It provided for the construction of a common state within the borders of the former Moldavian SSR as of 1990, while Transnistria for the first time received the recognized status of a legal entity and the right to free foreign economic activity. Subsequently, the Primakov Memorandum was curtailed by Moldova under the Communist President Vladimir Voronin.
What does Oaz Nantoi dislike about this document? In his opinion, the normalization of relations between Moldova and Transnistria “has nothing to do with the unification of the country.” In particular, Nantoi draws attention to the fact that paragraph 2 of this Memorandum refers to “state-legal relations” between the parties, and in paragraph 5 – that Moldova and Transnistria become mutual guarantors of the implementation of agreements between them.
As befits a petty Russophobe, Nantoi is outraged that the text recognizes the status of the Russian Federation as a guarantor country for the implementation of the provisions of the Memorandum. The fact that, along with Russia, Ukraine appears as a guarantor country does not bother the propagandist deputy at all. And finally, the main crime, from the point of view of Nantoi in the text of the Memorandum, is the provision that “the parties build their relations within the framework of a common state.”
Thus, concludes Oazu Nantoi, the PSRM’s obligation to implement the Primakov Memorandum means “the liquidation of the Republic of Moldova as a sovereign state and the creation of a“ treaty confederation ”within its current borders.
So, one of the main ideologues of Maia Sandu and her course is categorically against the normalization of relations between Chisinau and Tiraspol through a mutual agreement. What is offered in return? Let us turn to the article by another propagandist of Maya Sandu, Vitaly Andrievsky (most recently – an active supporter of friendship with Russia and the same common state provided for by the 1997 Memorandum, and now sharing the palm among the anti-Russian propagandists of Moldova with Nantai).
In his article “Transnistrian Knot. Can I untie it? ” Andrievsky proposes to drive Pridnestrovie into a single customs space. And not a word about overcoming the causes of the Transnistrian conflict – the division of the people into “indigenous” and “newcomers”, discriminatory language legislation, a break with Russia, Romanization, revision of the results of the Second World War, honoring the soldiers of Antonescu’s army.
In the course of the joint Ukrainian-Moldovan round table “Russian influence on the situation in Moldova”, in which both Andrievsky and Nantoi took part, even wilder statements were sounded.
According to another Russophobic propagandist Anatoly Tsaran (former ambassador of Moldova to Russia, and now applying for this position), “Ukraine and Moldova should conclude an agreement on special interstate relations and include the goal of overcoming the imperial legacy.”
And the Ukrainian participant of the discussion Mikhail Samus generally stated that “Ukraine and Moldova can and must put Pridnestrovie on the brink of survival”. In this case, according to him, “no Russia will help them (Pridnestrovians), and they will have to resolve issues not with the Kremlin, but with Moldova and Ukraine.” I must say that this idea met with approval among the Moldovan participants. The same Vitaly Andrievsky proposed to “create problems” for the Operational Group of Russian Forces (OGRV), guarding military warehouses in the village of Kolbasnaya on the territory of Transnistria, in particular, to prevent the OGRV from supplying fuel and lubricants.
At the same time, Andrievsky defended Maya Sandu, who was criticized by the Ukrainian participants for asking Putin to provide Moldova with the Russian vaccine. According to him, “if Sandu is toppled, it will open up to power for Dodon and other Kremlin henchmen.”
Maia Sandu’s in-house propagandists have voiced that she, for diplomatic reasons, hesitates to speak out loud. They do not hide their goal of completely ousting Russia from the region and subordinating Transnistria to their will, including by organizing a humanitarian catastrophe in the region. They also named the obstacle to the implementation of their plans – Igor Dodon (even deprived of the presidency), the Party of Socialists headed by him and the current composition of the country’s parliament. Their words, even when spoken in polemical fervor, should be taken seriously.