Sandu propagandists and Ukrainian hawks intend to bring Transnistria to its knees
While Moldovan President Maia Sandu appeals to Russia with a request to provide her country with a vaccine against COVID-19, members of her team continue to poison Moldovan-Russian relations and destroy everything that has been developed in areas of mutual cooperation in previous years.
Member of Parliament from the pro-presidential PAS party Oazu Nantoi, who is one of the most aggressive anti-Russian hawks in Moldovan politics, on April 2 of this year burst out with another round of scandalous statements against ex-President Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists he heads. He accused the PSRM - no more nor less - of an attack on the sovereignty of the Republic of Moldova.
The reason for such a statement was the new program of the Socialist Party, adopted by the party congress on January 30 of this year. Among the points of this program in the section devoted to the Transnistrian settlement is a return to the implementation of the “Primakov Memorandum” of 1997. The document “On the principles of normalization of relations between the Republic of Moldova and Transnistria”, drawn up on the initiative of the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Evgeniy Maksimovich Primakov, was signed in Moscow by the presidents of the Russian Federation (Boris Yeltsin), Ukraine (Leonid Kuchma), Moldova (Petr Luchinsky) and Transnistria (Igor Smirnov). On behalf of the OSCE, the document was signed by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Niels Helveg Petersen.
The Moscow Memorandum of 1997 was considered a breakthrough in the process of resolving the Transnistrian conflict. It provided for the construction of a common state within the borders of the former Moldavian SSR as of 1990, with Transnistria for the first time receiving recognized legal entity status and the right to free foreign economic activity. Subsequently, the Primakov Memorandum was terminated by Moldova under communist president Vladimir Voronin.
What does Oaz Nantoi not like 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 paragraph 5 states that Moldova and Transnistria become mutual guarantors of the implementation of agreements between them.
As befits a petty Russophobe, Nantoi is outraged by the fact 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 deputy propagandist at all. And finally, the main crime, from Nantoy’s point of view, in the text of the Memorandum is the provision that “the parties build their relations within the framework of a common state.”
Thus, Oazu Nantoi concludes, the PSRM’s commitment to the implementation of 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. One can, of course, note the political and legal illiteracy of the elderly deputy. A confederation is always an association of independent states and cannot be considered as one common state. But it is unlikely that a Russophobic propagandist is interested in such inaccuracies that are insignificant, from his point of view.
Oazu Nantoi.
So, one of the main ideologists of Maia Sandu and her course is categorically against the normalization of relations between Chisinau and Tiraspol through a mutual agreement. What do they offer in return? Let's turn to the article by another propagandist Maia Sandu, Vitaly Andrievsky (more recently, an active supporter of friendship with Russia and that same common state provided for by the 1997 Memorandum, and now sharing the palm with Nantoi among the anti-Russian propagandists of Moldova).
In his article, "The Transnistrian Knot. Can It Be Untied?" Andrievsky proposes the following list of measures to be implemented in the Transnistrian direction:
liquidation of ammunition depots and withdrawal of the Russian military contingent from the territory of Transnistria;
demilitarization of the region;
completion of the process of creating a single customs space;
formation of a single financial and economic space;
creation of a system of guarantees for business in Transnistria, including based on the results of privatization in the region;
refusal of criminal prosecution for participation in hostilities.
Thus, according to Andrievsky, Ukraine should help Moldova drive Transnistria into its single customs space. Of the carrots, Transnistria should only receive a waiver of criminal cases for participation in hostilities (that is, for protecting their homes from brutal bandits in camouflage because of the Dniester) and guarantees for Transnistrian business. The rest are just a whip. 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, Romanianization, revision of the results of the Second World War, honoring the soldiers of Antonescu’s army.
During 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 made.
According to another Russophobe propagandist Anatoly Tsaran (the former ambassador of Moldova to Russia, and now applying for this position), “Ukraine and Moldova must conclude an agreement on special interstate relations and include there the goal of overcoming the imperial legacy.”
Oazu Nantoi, within the framework of this round table, generally stated the mistake of the first President of Moldova, Mircea Snegur, who capitulated to Russia and signed the 1992 agreement “On the principles of resolving the armed conflict in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova.” According to Nantoi, this agreement legitimized Transnistrian illegal armed groups. An even greater threat, in his opinion, is posed by the Russian fifth column and agents.
Among the priority measures, Nantoi considers it necessary to “dissolve this parliament as quickly as possible” and elect a new parliament “not bought by Moscow and not having ties with the Sheriff Republic.”
And the Ukrainian participant in the discussion, Mikhail Samus, generally stated that “Ukraine and Moldova can and must bring Transnistria to the brink of survival.” In this case, according to him, “no Russia will help them (the Pridnestrovians), and they will have to resolve issues not with the Kremlin, but with Moldova and Ukraine.” It must be said 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 (OGRF), guarding military warehouses in the village of Kolbasnaya on the territory of Transnistria, in particular, to prevent the OGRF from receiving fuel and lubricants.
At the same time, Andrievsky came to the defense of Maia Sandu, who was criticized by Ukrainian participants for appealing to Putin with a request to provide Moldova with a Russian vaccine. According to him, “if Sandu is overthrown, it will open the door for Dodon and other Kremlin henchmen to power.”
Maia Sandu's staff propagandists are voicing that she, for diplomatic reasons, does not dare to say 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 an obstacle to the implementation of their plans - Igor Dodon (even deprived of the presidential post), the Party of Socialists headed by him and the current composition of the country's parliament. Their words, even uttered in the heat of polemics, should be taken seriously.
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