{"id":186019,"date":"2013-06-06T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2013\/06\/06\/federalization-of-moldova-was-debated-in-washington-dc-237221-eng\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:58:21","slug":"federalization-of-moldova-was-debated-in-washington-dc-237221-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/federalization-of-moldova-was-debated-in-washington-dc-237221-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalization of Moldova was debated in Washington, DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Here you can find the most important inputs from the conference as they are updated in real time.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 12:10: <\/strong>Moldova.ORG:&nbsp;The conference ended. Thank you for your interest and time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 12:09:<\/strong> Pamela Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova: &bdquo;The Transnistria situation has so many impediments to its resolution that the new government should have as its top priority European integration and economic prosperity. &ldquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;Moldova needs definitively to conquer and tackle corruption. It will have a positive effect on both Moldova and Transnistria.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 12:03 PM (EST):<\/strong> William Hill, former Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova: &ldquo;There should be no Russian troops. Nobody wants them in Moldova.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">UPDATE 11:53:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Vladimir Socor: &ldquo;As long as the Russian military persists in Transnistria, it is illusory to talk about a settlement of this conflict.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;EU should take a leading role by pushing simultaneously for the demilitarization of Transnistria. Ukraine plays a constructive, but not an active role.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:44:<\/strong> Pamela Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova:  &ldquo;Moldova will not be in US top 5 foreign policy priorities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:40:<\/strong> Oazu Nantoi: &ldquo;People living on the left bank of the Nistru River live in fear. We cannot ignore this situation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:20:<\/strong> Igor Munteanu, Moldovan Ambassador to Washington, D.C.: &ldquo;The conflict should be settled exclusively by peaceful means.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;We need more international support to foster human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:15: <\/strong>According to Mr. Nantoi, a viable solution for the Transnistrian conflict is the integration of the Transnistrian population in the system of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;It requires unconditional dismantling of any illegal deployments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">UPDATE 11:07:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oazu Nantoi, Program Director, Institute for Public Policy, Chisinau, Moldova: &ldquo;It is a strange conflict because it is actually a business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;It is a not a frozen conflict, it is rather a conflict with frozen solutions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr. Nantoi gave a definition on what the Transnistrian conflict means. According to him, it is a conflict between the Republic of Moldova and Russia, not between the two banks of the Nistru River. He made it clear that Transnistria is not a part of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:57:<\/strong> Ambassador William Hill, former Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova 1999-2001 and 2003-2006: &ldquo;Federalism is controversial because the academic question on how to structure the system is deeply politicized.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:45:<\/strong> Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC:  &ldquo;The conflict is a matter of correlation of the political forces at the international, regional and internal level.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;Russia&rsquo;s 1999 commitment to withdraw the troops was reformulated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;Moldova has become an object in a wider bargaining.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;The old international presence in the setup was the OSCE, organization which is internally restricted by Russia.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Vladimir Socor said the Moldova&rsquo;s political and institutional setup would never survive a federalized system. &ldquo;If federalization will be imposed, we will surely see a demand of autonomy in the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking districts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:35: <\/strong>Ambassador Pamela Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova 2001-2003: &ldquo;Moldovans should look at healthy models of federalism like the one in the United States. Federalization (power-sharing) is the only way for Transnistria and Gagauzia to successfully be part of a united Moldova.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;We are pleased and hopeful that the new government will fulfill its European aspirations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:22:<\/strong> Christopher J. Borgen: &quot;Federalism is a power of colors.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:20: <\/strong>Mr. Borgen: The &ldquo;autonomy&rdquo; is a separate unit within a state, which has a high degree of self-governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:19:<\/strong> Mr. Borgen made a distinction between symmetrical federalism (USA, Mexico) and asymmetrical federalism (Columbia).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:15:<\/strong> Christopher J. Borgen, Associate Dean at St. John&#8217;s University School of Law and moderator of the conference, said the concept of federalism is often misunderstood by some actors. He made some conceptual distinctions between territorial power-sharing and community-based power-sharing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:06 AM (EST):<\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Vlad Spanu, President of the Moldova Foundation: &ldquo;One element I would like to discuss today is not only about federalization but also that Moldova was part of Romania which was occupied by force by the Soviet Union.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Live conference from Washington, D.C on federalization of Moldova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Here you can find the most important inputs from the conference as they are updated in real time.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 12:10: <\/strong>Moldova.ORG:&nbsp;The conference ended. Thank you for your interest and time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 12:09:<\/strong> Pamela Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova: &bdquo;The Transnistria situation has so many impediments to its resolution that the new government should have as its top priority European integration and economic prosperity. &ldquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;Moldova needs definitively to conquer and tackle corruption. It will have a positive effect on both Moldova and Transnistria.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 12:03 PM (EST):<\/strong> William Hill, former Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova: &ldquo;There should be no Russian troops. Nobody wants them in Moldova.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">UPDATE 11:53:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Vladimir Socor: &ldquo;As long as the Russian military persists in Transnistria, it is illusory to talk about a settlement of this conflict.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;EU should take a leading role by pushing simultaneously for the demilitarization of Transnistria. Ukraine plays a constructive, but not an active role.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:44:<\/strong> Pamela Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova:  &ldquo;Moldova will not be in US top 5 foreign policy priorities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:40:<\/strong> Oazu Nantoi: &ldquo;People living on the left bank of the Nistru River live in fear. We cannot ignore this situation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:20:<\/strong> Igor Munteanu, Moldovan Ambassador to Washington, D.C.: &ldquo;The conflict should be settled exclusively by peaceful means.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;We need more international support to foster human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 11:15: <\/strong>According to Mr. Nantoi, a viable solution for the Transnistrian conflict is the integration of the Transnistrian population in the system of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;It requires unconditional dismantling of any illegal deployments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">UPDATE 11:07:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oazu Nantoi, Program Director, Institute for Public Policy, Chisinau, Moldova: &ldquo;It is a strange conflict because it is actually a business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;It is a not a frozen conflict, it is rather a conflict with frozen solutions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr. Nantoi gave a definition on what the Transnistrian conflict means. According to him, it is a conflict between the Republic of Moldova and Russia, not between the two banks of the Nistru River. He made it clear that Transnistria is not a part of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:57:<\/strong> Ambassador William Hill, former Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova 1999-2001 and 2003-2006: &ldquo;Federalism is controversial because the academic question on how to structure the system is deeply politicized.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:45:<\/strong> Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC:  &ldquo;The conflict is a matter of correlation of the political forces at the international, regional and internal level.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;Russia&rsquo;s 1999 commitment to withdraw the troops was reformulated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;Moldova has become an object in a wider bargaining.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;The old international presence in the setup was the OSCE, organization which is internally restricted by Russia.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Vladimir Socor said the Moldova&rsquo;s political and institutional setup would never survive a federalized system. &ldquo;If federalization will be imposed, we will surely see a demand of autonomy in the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking districts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:35: <\/strong>Ambassador Pamela Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova 2001-2003: &ldquo;Moldovans should look at healthy models of federalism like the one in the United States. Federalization (power-sharing) is the only way for Transnistria and Gagauzia to successfully be part of a united Moldova.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;We are pleased and hopeful that the new government will fulfill its European aspirations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:22:<\/strong> Christopher J. Borgen: &quot;Federalism is a power of colors.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:20: <\/strong>Mr. Borgen: The &ldquo;autonomy&rdquo; is a separate unit within a state, which has a high degree of self-governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:19:<\/strong> Mr. Borgen made a distinction between symmetrical federalism (USA, Mexico) and asymmetrical federalism (Columbia).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>UPDATE 10:15:<\/strong> Christopher J. 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