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Moldova Crisis Watch: news collection by independent media, NGOs
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CRISIS WATCH – IDIS Moldova
This is a collection of news from Moldova’s political crisis done by independent media and NGOs.
April 11
1. 2009-04-11/14:15/www.garda.com.md
The opposition party “Alianta Moldova Noastra” (AMN) claims they can’t access the electoral list due to the ruling party appeal to Appeal Court. The spokesperson of the party, Victor Osipov, maintains that AMN could access the electoral list only a few hours, in inadequate conditions: the basement of a judiciary court. The Appeal Court will decide upon the Communist Party contestation to stop the access to the electoral list today at 15:00.
2. 2009-04-11/12:52/Unimedia
Tomorrow at 10:00 the opposition parties will organize peaceful manifestation against the abusing of the ruling party.
3. 2009-04-11/11:17/Hotnews.md, after www.rsf.org
Authorities urged to stop violence against journalists. Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed that the Moldovan authorities have been arresting journalists and even using violence against them amid angry protests and rioting about the results of last weekend’s parliamentary elections. Both Moldovan and Romanian journalists have been affected. “We appeal to the authorities to act with care and restraint,” Reporters Without Borders said. “They have a duty to ensure that the detained journalists are released without delay and that media are able to work freely and safely. Moreover, the stigmatization of Romania and Romanian journalists is a dangerous strategy. Both the Moldovan authorities and foreign governments must refrain from stirring up violence, especially ethnic violence.”
For more details, http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30808
4. 2009-04-11/09:09/Info Prim-Neo
The Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Coalition 2009 intends to verify the electoral lists used in the April 5 legislative elections. On April 10, the organization filed an application to the Central Election Commission (CEC), asking that it is also allowed to copy the documents from the polling places of the Chisinau Electoral District.
5. 2009-04-11/09:00/www.garda.com.md
Almost 20.00, but the editorial Friday more alarming signals from the citizens. Many say they no longer feel confident of their own security and defense require journalists.
Fore more details, http://garda.com.md/eng/investigative/the-last-threats
April 10
6. 2009-04-10/19:25/Unimedia
Jurnal de Chisinau newspaper and Jurnal TV asked the US embassy in Chisinau to offer political asylum for all the editing team, because of the fact that the reporters are being terrorized these days by the force organs.
7. 2009-04-10/19:21/Unimedia
After the press has written that the communist government has co-participated at vandalism acts from presidency and parliament, publishing an image with youth supported by policemen, today, April 10, the presidential security explained to the journalists: "The policeman that appears in the photo on the roof of the presidency was there because he was asked to get up by the people".
8. 2009-04-10/18:21/Unimedia
"They’ve hit me as they could. I was hit all over the body". That’s how a young man commented for UNIMEDIA how he was aggressed and arrested by police during the night of April 7. The young man tells how he was beaten by the order forces, saying that they’ve took documents, money and the mobile phone.
9. 2009-04-10/18:11/Unimedia
Lina Grâu, news correspondent of NewsIN Romania in Chişinău is leaving Moldova, because of not being arrested by police. "I’ve received a few signs and I decided it’s better for me and integrity of my children to leave now in Romania", declared Lina.
10. 2009-04-10/17:35/Info Prim-Neo
The opposition parties claim the authorities restrict their access to the voters lists, they were to verify during four days, starting April 9. The three parties – PL, PLDM and AMN – ask the Central Election Commission (CEC) to prolong the term by a week.
11. 2009-04-10/17:26/Info Prim-Neo
The Ministry of Construction and Territorial Development will announce a tender contest to select the company that will repair the buildings of the Parliament and Presidential Office devastated.
12. 2009-04-10/16:36/Unimedia
President Vladimir Voronin asked the Constitutional Court of Moldova to command renumbering the votes for the legislative elections, saying that this is going to be an argument that the elections were correct. The opposition sustained that elections were faked not at the votes numbering, but because of the dead people vote and the votes of people that have permanent residence in other countries, but voted also in Moldova.
13. 2009-04-10/15:35/Unimedia
People working at UNIMEDIA are being intimidated now through SMS messages saying that police and secret services are on their way of making arrests at UNIMEDIA’s office.
14. 2009-04-10/15:30/Unimedia
A young man, 23 years, who was arrested on April 7, was cruel beaten by police, after he participated at the manifestation as a translator for a group of Swedish journalists.
15. 2009-04-10/14:17/Unimedia
The Editor-in-chief at Jurnal de Chisinau newspaper was released. She was arrested because "circulating near the government for extracting info which could be used to hit the government", says Jurnal.md.
16. 2009-04-10/13:17/Unimedia
The main leaders of non-guvernamental organizations from Moldova made statement 30 minutes ago at a press-conference, in which the declare that the protest on 7th April was pacifist and only an active group of instigators incited the crowd to vandalism. In this case, the transfer of the responsibility of the violence to opposite parties is not rightful. NGO leaders ask President Voronin to stop violence to participants at the protest and opposition.
17. 2009-04-10/11:18/Unimedia
Journalists teams from Romania (Realitatea TV, Antena 3), which broadcasted live the events from PMAN, were arrested and expulsed from Moldova.
18. 2009-04-10/11:12/Unimedia
Although 2 days before on internet was transmitted that today will be organized a big protest, yesterday there was a message transmitted among internet that between protesters will be instigators. They will start the fights and the police will have the argument to use weapons.
19. 2009-04-10/00:47/Unimedia
It seems like a lot of websites are already blocked in Moldova by Moldtelecom internet provider, such as: unimedia.md, unimedia.info, jurnaltv.md, hotnews.md, protv.md (news sites), facebook.com, odnoklassniki.ru, twitter.com (social networks).
April 9
20. 2009-04-09/19:30/Infotag
The European Union urged Moldova Thursday to resume normal ties with Romania, after Communist leaders in Chisinau accused Bucharest of fomenting riots that left dozens hurt and saw almost 200 arrested.
21. 2009-04-09/19:30/Infotag
The Anti-Communist Popular Coalition-2009 has passed a statement demanding from the Ministry of the Interior to "stop unlawful arrests of the youth in the center of Chisinau". The document authors are maintaining that plain-clothed gentlemen are raiding the city center there and fro, catching young people without any grounds. In their words, "the police are arresting young men and girls even at public transport stations, and many people have disappeared without a trace". Writer Valeriu Matei of the Coalition stated that at about 9 p.m. on Wednesday, four guys were arrested at a trolleybus station in the Banulescu-Bodoni Street.
22. 2009-04-09/19:30/Infotag
Today, the head of state convened a special meeting of relevant state structure heads to discuss the repair problem, and ordered "to finance the repair at the expense of the State Budget means intended previously for the educational institutions, whose students or other representatives took part in the April 7 disorders".
23. 2009-04-09/19:30/Infotag
Members of the People’s Action movement have said their leader, Sergiu Mocanu, who was detained on 8 April by people in plain clothes, was not connected with the 6 April protest rallies in central Chisinau. A member of the movement, Daniela Bodrug, told a news conference today that Mocanu attended the rally alongside other opposition leaders. "Mocanu did not participate in the election campaign and did not contribute to the organization of these rallies. We request that Mocanu be released as his arrest is unfair," Bodrug said.
24. 2009-04-09/19:30/Unimedia
The social democrats from the German Bundestag criticized today the Moldovan regime and President Vladimir Voronin, saying that he is responsible for the situation from Moldova.
25. 2009-04-09/14:42/Infotag
The Moldovan authorities shall not make even a step back before the protesters in Chisinau, Mark Tkachuk, head of the Communist Party’s electoral headquarters, stated in an interview published on the www.StireaZilei.md website.
26. 2009-04-09/14:42/Infotag
The Moldovan Prosecutor General’s Office has initiated a criminal suit falling under a Criminal Code article on an attempted overthrow of state power, carrying out a coup d’etat, and state power usurping, Prosecutor General Valeriu Ghurbulea stated to journalists. "Now that the criminal case has been started, investigation organs have embarked on work. They will establish instigators of the riots and the degree of each person’s responsibility. Depending on this, concrete persons may be brought to legal responsibility in accordance with the Criminal Code article concerned, which envisages an imprisonment of up to 25 years", said Valeriu Ghurbulea.
27. 2009-04-09/12:35/Unimedia
Today, in Odessa (Ukraine), Gabriel Stati, one of the most important business-man from Moldova was arrested. Authorities, suspect him for organizing protest.
28. 2009-04-09/10:16/Unimedia
Central Election Committee has allowed the opposition parties to verify the voters lists. The opposition has 4 days starting today, Thursday.
April 8
29. 2009-04-08/22:16/Unimedia
Election Committee has published final elections results. Communist Party has obtained 49,48% of votes. This will assure them 59 or 60 deputies. The president is elected with 61 deputy votes. Opposite party has the opportunity to block electing the new president. If this happens three times, the Parliament will be dissolved and organized new elections.
30. 2009-04-08/21:44/Unimedia
At this time, President Vladimir Voronin holds a speech for 15 minutes at the national television at the main news bulletin of the country. He accuses Romania for trying to organize a "coup d’Etat." Also today, Vladimir Voronin had a meeting with universities rectors why he criticizes them for letting students to participate at the protest (at the end rectors applauded).
31. 2009-04-08/19:50/Unimedia
After authorities have declared Filip Teodorescu, Romanian ambassador, as persona non-grata in Moldova, Mihnea Constantinescu was proposed as new ambassador.
32. 2009-04-08/19:08/Infotag
On Wednesday, several hundred protesters have again gathered before the Government Building in the central square to demand freedom for their detained comrades and discuss the text of an address to the Ministry of the Interior.
33. 2009-04-08/19:08/Infotag
The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (LDPM) has demanded to set up a special commission to investigate into the acts of vandalism that took place in the Parliament Building and presidential office on Tuesday. LDPM leader MP Vlad Filat told a news conference today his party has nothing to do with the street disorders, and offered a supposition that the vandalism acts were directed by the Communist Party and the Christian Democratic Popular Party.
34. 2009-04-08/19:08/Unimedia
Today, the Government adopted a decision to request visas from Romanian citizens trying to enter Moldova. Visa regime will be applied from Thursday, 9 of April.
35. 2009-04-08/18:53/Unimedia
The usual train route between Chisinau and Bucharest was interrupted today for indefinite period, because of "technical" issues.
36. 2009-04-08/18:37/Omega
The representatives of Fascist type legionary organization "Noua Dreapta" ("New Right") from Bucharest were noticed among the organizers of mass disorders, states a pro-governmental agency.
For more details, http://www.omg.md/Content.aspx?id=2469&lang=2
37. 2009-04-08/18:28/Unimedia
Emma Nicholson, deputy of European Parliament, said in an interview to BBC related to faking elections: "The problem was that it was an OSCE report, and in the OSCE are, of course, the Russians, and their view was quite different, quite substantially different, for example from my own". She was an observatory at the elections. Emma Nicholson also quoted: "When we stopped the count […], at about 1 am, it looks like communist a going to have 35%, and the opposition parties […] – 40-45%".
38. 2009-04-08/16:15/Unimedia
Today the spirits calm down. Right now in PMAN are about 2000 young people. There is no political leader, so the participants try to organize themselves. Community works are cleaning up Presidency and Parliament building. A lot of people are just walking around and taking photos of burned Parliament.
39. 2009-04-08/13:19/Unimedia
About 200 young people were arrested yesterday night by police.
40. 2009-04-08/12:59/Infotag
The Ferrero-Waldner, European Union’s Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy has urged everyone involved to stop violence in Chisinau streets that began on April 7. On that day, several thousand young people took the Parliament Building and the Office of the President by storm and heavily damaged them.
41. 2009-04-08/12:59/Infotag
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has called upon all concerned to put an end to violence in Chisinau center.
42. 2009-04-08/12:59/Infotag
The U.S. Embassy to Moldova has expressed regret over the violence in Chisinau that has led to injuries, damage to property and a possible loss of life.
43. 2009-04-08/12:59/Infotag
About 100 were injured during the mass disturbances in Chisinau on Tuesday, Public relations Officer, Lieutenant-colonel Alla Meleka said. In her words, 96 policemen were traumatized, 43 of them, including two in a very grave condition, were hospitalized. Meleka said that the police detained about 200 participants in the mass disturbances, including eight minors. "They are accused of marauding, plunder, holdups. The Law envisages both administrative and criminal punishment for above actions", underlined.
44. 2009-04-08/12:25/Unimedia
About 4000 young people are now in the central square of Chisinau, protesting against the fake elections.
45. 2009-04-08/12:24/Info Prim-Neo
A number of human rights organizations Wednesday issued a joint statement condemning the acts of violence and vandalism committed near and inside the buildings of the Presidential Office and Parliament of Moldova on April
46. 2009-04-08/12:18/OMEGA
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Romania in Chişinău, Filip Teodorescu, is declared a non-grata person in the Republic of Moldova.
April 7
47. 2009-04-07/22:45/Unimedia
The firemen took the situation under control.
48. 2009-04-07/22:05/Unimedia
Vladimir Voronin asked for the help of the Occident for establishing order in Moldova.
49. 2009-04-07/21:41/Unimedia
Vlad Filat, president of Liberal Democrat Party: "The Communists want to put the accent from fake elections to violent actions, because the police, which was in a small number at the protest, could not assure the public order." Dorin Chirtoacă, vice-president of the Liberal Party says that there were provocateurs among the young people that have thrown first with stones and made that a peaceful action become violence.
50. 2009-04-07/20:08/Unimedia
EU’s High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana declare EU is concerned about the latest events in Chisinau and requests stopping the violence. Ghenadii Ziuganov, one of political leaders from Russia, declared that secret services from occidental countries were involved in organizing the protest.
51. 2009-04-07/19:50/Unimedia
The President Vladimir Voronin accuses opposition parties of preparing a coup d’Etat.
52. 2009-04-07/19:29/Unimedia
OSCE Mission to Moldova condemns post-election violence and appeals to all sides for restraint
53. 2009-04-07/19:06/Unimedia
While 30 000 young people took over the Parliament and Presidency, the national television was broadcasting a concert.
54. 2009-04-07/18:16/Infotag
The Moldovan Prosecutor General’s Office has qualified as "unlawful and impermissible" the actions by the organizers of and participants in the so-called "Mourning Day" staged in the center of Chisinau on Monday night.
55. 2009-04-07/18:16/Infotag
The Liberal Party leadership convened a news conference today to present concrete evidence of falsification of the April 5 election results. LP Chairman Mihai Ghimpu stated, in particular, that shortly before Election Day, the Communists had implanted extra 200 thousand names or so into voter lists.
56. 2009-04-07/18:16/Unimedia
Communist Party has an agreement with opposition.
1. The opposition leaders will try to go to Parliament and convince the participants to stop the vandalism of the building.
2. The Communist Party should assure a transparent checking of the elections.
57. 2009-04-07/17:04/Info Prim/Neo
The police keep launching tear gas in front of the Moldovan parliament at about 16.20. In their turn, the protesters throw Molotov cocktails at the Parliament’s building. Black smoke runs from the Parliament’s building, as fire is clearly seen through windows.
58. 2009-04-07/17:46/Unimedia
The participants keep vandalizing the Parliament. They are taking out PCs and paper. In the National Assembly, there are thousands of people, whom protest peacefully.
59. 2009-04-07/15:20/Infotag
At13.30 local time, the protesters slammed the huge door of the Office of the President, drew it down to the floor, then carried it outside the building, and under a roaring delight of the thousands, burned up the beautiful massive item. As the fire was gaining momentum, the youth began bringing out furniture and documents from the palace, throwing them into the flames, and crying "Moldova has awakened!", "We want to Europe!", "We want unification with Romania!’, and the like.
60. 2009-04-07/14:44/Infotag
On Tuesday, the angry Moldovan youth started throwing eggs, stones and bottles at the splendid Office of the President in the heart of Chisinau. At about noon, your Infotag correspondent saw several young men reach as far as practically the Office doors, despite a fierce resistance being offered by numerous law enforcement units encircling the building. So far, the well-equipped police are withholding the youth’s onslaught, not let them inside. The correspondent has just reported that windows of the Office’s ground floor have all been broken.
61. 2009-04-07/07:52/Info Prim-Neo
Roughly 10,000 young persons protested in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau on April 6 evening, disputing the results of the legislative elections.
A new football club has earned a leading place in the UEFA Champions League groups and starred in the headlines of worldwide football news yesterday. The Football Club Sheriff Tiraspol claimed a win with the score 2-1 against Real Madrid on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid. That made Sheriff Tiraspol the leader in Group D of the Champions League, including the football club in the groups of the most important European interclub competition for the first time ever.
International media outlets called it a miracle, a shock and a historic event, while strongly emphasizing the origin of the team and the existing political conflict between the two banks of the Dniester. “Football club from a pro-Russian separatist enclave in Moldova pulls off one of the greatest upsets in Champions League history,” claimed the news portals. “Sheriff crushed Real!” they said.
Moldovans made a big fuss out of it on social media, splitting into two groups: those who praised the team and the Republic of Moldova for making history and those who declared that the football club and their merits belong to Transnistria – a problematic breakaway region that claims to be a separate country.
Both groups are right and not right at the same time, as there is a bunch of ethical, political, social and practical matters that need to be considered.
Is it Moldova?
First of all, every Moldovan either from the right or left bank of Dniester (Transnistria) is free to identify himself with this achievement or not to do so, said Vitalie Spranceana, a sociologist, blogger, journalist and urban activist. According to him, boycotting the football club for being a separatist team is wrong.
At the same time, “it’s an illusion to think that territory matters when it comes to football clubs,” Spranceana claimed. “Big teams, the ones included in the Champions League, have long lost their connection both with the countries in which they operate, and with the cities in which they appeared and to which they linked their history. […] In the age of globalized commercial football, teams, including the so-called local ones, are nothing more than global traveling commercial circuses, incidentally linked to cities, but more closely linked to all sorts of dirty, semi-dirty and cleaner cash flows.”
What is more important in this case is the consistency, not so much of citizens, as of politicians from the government who have “no right to celebrate the success of separatism,” as they represent “the national interests, not the personal or collective pleasures of certain segments of the population,” believes the political expert Dionis Cenusa. The victory of FC Sheriff encourages Transnistrian separatism, which receives validation now, he also stated.
“I don’t know how it happens that the “proud Moldovans who chose democracy”, in their enthusiasm for Sheriff Tiraspol’s victory over Real Madrid, forget the need for total and unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria!” declared the journalist Vitalie Ciobanu.
Nowadays, FC Sheriff Tiraspol has no other choice than to represent Moldova internationally. For many years, the team used the Moldovan Football Federation in order to be able to participate in championships, including international ones. That is because the region remains unrecognised by the international community. However, the club’s victory is presented as that of Transnistria within the region, without any reference to the Republic of Moldova, its separatist character being applied in this case especially.
Is it a victory?
In fact, FC Sheriff Tiraspol joining the Champions League is a huge image breakthrough for the Transnistrian region, as the journalist Madalin Necsutu claimed. It is the success of the Tiraspol Club oligarchic patrons. From the practical point of view, FC Sheriff Tiraspol is a sports entity that serves its own interests and the interests of its owners, being dependent on the money invested by Tiraspol (but not only) oligarchs.
Here comes the real dilemma: the Transnistrian team, which is generously funded by money received from corruption schemes and money laundering, is waging an unequal fight with the rest of the Moldovan football clubs, the journalist also declared. The Tiraspol team is about to raise 15.6 million euro for reaching the Champions League groups and the amounts increase depending on their future performance. According to Necsutu, these money will go directly on the account of the club, not to the Moldovan Football Federation, creating an even bigger gab between FC Sheriff and other football clubs from Moldova who have much more modest financial possibilities.
“I do not see anything useful for Moldovan football, not a single Moldovan player is part of FC Sheriff Tiraspol. I do not see anything beneficial for the Moldovan Football Federation or any national team.”
Is it only about football?
FC Sheriff Tiraspol, with a total estimated value of 12.8 million euros, is controlled by Victor Gusan and Ilya Kazmala, being part of Sheriff Holding – a company that controls the trade of wholesale, retail food, fuels and medicine by having monopolies on these markets in Transnistria. The holding carries out car trading activities, but also operates in the field of construction and real estate. Gusan’s people also hold all of the main leadership offices in the breakaway region, from Parliament to the Prime Minister’s seat or the Presidency.
The football club is supported by a holding alleged of smuggling, corruption, money laundering and organised crime. Moldovan media outlets published investigations about the signals regarding the Sheriff’s holding involvement in the vote mobilization and remuneration of citizens on the left bank of the Dniester who participated in the snap parliamentary elections this summer and who were eager to vote for the pro-Russian socialist-communist bloc.
Considering the above, there is a great probability that the Republic of Moldova will still be represented by a football club that is not identified as being Moldovan, being funded from obscure money, growing in power and promoting the Transnistrian conflict in the future as well.
Photo: unknown
Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Natalia Gavrilita, together with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nicu Popescu, pay an official visit to Brussels, between September 27-28, being invited by High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell Fontelles.
Today, Prime Minister had a meeting with Charles Michel, President of the European Council. The Moldovan PM thanked the senior European official for the support of the institution in strengthening democratic processes, reforming the judiciary and state institutions, economic recovery and job creation, as well as increasing citizens’ welfare. Natalia Gavrilita expressed her confidence that the current visit laid the foundations for boosting relations between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union, so that, in the next period, it would be possible to advance high-level dialogues on security, justice and energy. Officials also exchanged views on priorities for the Eastern Partnership Summit, to be held in December.
“The EU is open to continue to support the Republic of Moldova and the ambitious reform agenda it proposes. Moldova is an important and priority partner for us,” said Charles Michel.
Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita also met with Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, expressing her gratitude for the support received through the OMNIBUS macro-financial assistance program. The two officials discussed the need to advance the recovery of money from bank fraud, to strengthen sustainable mechanisms for supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in Moldova, and to standardize the customs and taxes as one of the main conditions for deepening cooperation with the EU in this field.
Additionally, Prime Minister spoke about the importance of the Eastern Partnership and the Deep Free Trade Agreement, noting that the Government’s policies are aimed at developing an economic model aligned with the European economic model, focused on digitalization, energy efficiency and the green economy.
A common press release of the Moldovan Prime Minister with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission, Josep Borrell Fontelles, took place today, where the agenda of Moldova’s reforms and the main priorities to focus on in the coming months were presented: judiciary reform; fighting COVID-19 pandemic; promoting economic recovery and conditions for growth and job creation; strengthening state institutions and resilience of the country.
“I am here to relaunch the dialogue between my country and the European Union. Our partnership is strong, but I believe there is room for even deeper cooperation and stronger political, economic and sectoral ties. I am convinced that this partnership is the key to the prosperity of our country and I hope that we will continue to strengthen cooperation.”
The Moldovan delegation met Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice. Tomorrow, there are scheduled common meetings with Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Adina Valean, European Commissioner for Transport and Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy.
Prime Minister will also attend a public event, along with Katarina Mathernova, Deputy Director-General for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.
Photo: gov.md
Politics
Promo-LEX about Maia Sandu’s UN speech: The president must insist on appointing a rapporteur to monitor the situation of human rights in Transnistria
The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, pays an official visit to New York, USA, between September 21-22. There, she participates in the work of the United Nations General Assembly. According to a press release of the President’s Office, the official will deliver a speech at the tribune of the United Nations.
In this context, the Promo-LEX Association suggested the president to request the appointment of a special rapporteur in order to monitor the situation of human rights in the Transnistrian region. According to Promo-LEX, the responsibility for human rights violations in the Transnistrian region arises as a result of the Russian Federation’s military, economic and political control over the Tiraspol regime.
“We consider it imperative to insist on the observance of the international commitments assumed by the Russian Federation regarding the withdrawal of the armed forces and ammunition from the territory of the country,” the representatives of Promo-LEX stated. They consider the speech before the UN an opportunity “to demand the observance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Russian Federation with reference to this territory which is in its full control.”
“It is important to remember about the numerous cases of murder, torture, ill-treatment, forced enlistment in illegal military structures, the application of pseudo-justice in the Transnistrian region, all carried out under the tacit agreement of the Russian Federation. These findings stem from dozens of rulings and decisions issued by the European Court of Human Rights, which found that Russia is responsible for human rights violations in the region.”
The association representatives expressed their hope that the president of the country would give priority to issues related to the human rights situation in the Transnistrian region and would call on relevant international actors to contribute to guaranteeing fundamental human rights and freedoms throughout Moldova.
They asked Maia Sandu to insist on the observance of the obligation to evacuate the ammunition and the military units of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Republic of Moldova, to publicly support the need for the Russian Federation to implement the ECtHR rulings on human rights violations in the Transnistrian region, and to request the appointment of an UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur to monitor the human rights situation in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova.
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The Promo-LEX Association concluded that 14 out of 25 actions planned within the National Action Plan for the years 2018–2022 concerning respecting human rights in Transnistria were not carried out by the responsible authorities.
The association expressed its concern and mentioned that there are a large number of delays in the planned results. “There is a lack of communication and coordination between the designated institutions, which do not yet have a common vision of interaction for the implementation of the plan.”
Promo-LEX requested the Government of the Republic of Moldova to re-assess the reported activities and to take urgent measures, “which would exclude superficial implementation of future activities and increase the level of accountability of the authorities.”
Photo: peacekeeping.un.org
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