{"id":445346,"date":"2018-02-26T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445346"},"modified":"2018-02-26T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:09:29","slug":"mp-union-romania-happens-will-take-weapon-defend-gagauz-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/mp-union-romania-happens-will-take-weapon-defend-gagauz-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"MP: If the union with Romania happens, I will take my weapon to defend the Gagauz autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

24 February 2018- The Democrat MP, Corneliu Dudnic, declared that in the case of Moldova uniting with Romania, he would be the first to take his weapon to defend the Gagauz autonomy. The declaration was made during an assembly of regional and local governments of Gagauzia in Tomai, next to Cead\u00eer-Lunga.<\/p>\n

“Just to close this discussion on unionism, I am promising that if this project of Union ever takes place, I will be the first to take my automatic rifle and to defend the Gagauz autonomy”<\/em>, said Dudnic. The Democrat MP also promised to elaborate a draft law on banning political parties with unionist messages.<\/p>\n

Over one thousand people from all over Gagauzia gathered to condemn the symbolic declarations of some 50 villages on union with Romania.<\/p>\n

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The Gagauz leader, Irina Vlah, declared that Gagauzia must stay within an independent Moldova:<\/p>\n

“I would like that this meeting confirms that we are interested in consolidating the statehood of Moldova. I am sure that a strong Gagauzia can exist only in a strong Moldova”<\/em>, underlined Vlah, quoted by Gagauzinfo.md<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Other leaders\u00a0from Gagauzia, such as former head of the Council of “the Republic of Gagauzia”, Mihai Kendigelyan, or the current head of the People’s Assembly, Vladimir Kyssa, proposed to call 2018 the year of Romanian occupation of Gagauzia- apparently because of the period of 1918-1940.<\/p>\n

Most of the speakers at the assembly were mostly concerned about Gagauzia’s possible loss of autonomy in case Moldova loses the statehood:<\/p>\n

“If the state is eliminated, what kind of Gagauzia’s competencies are we talking about? Thus, first of all, we need to talk about consolidating the statehood of our country”<\/em>, stated former regional deputy, Ivan Burgundji.<\/p>\n

What President Dodon and Gagauz people\u00a0call anti-constitutional and threatening acts are just some symbolical statements<\/a> of local councils from about 50 villages, towns or district councils on the occasion of the 1859 Romanian Union Day.<\/p>\n

Gagauzia was established in 1994 as an autonomy for around 150 000 Gagauz (Turkic origin) people in the south of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>24 February 2018- The Democrat MP, Corneliu Dudnic, declared that in the case of Moldova uniting with Romania, he would be the first to take his weapon to defend the Gagauz autonomy. The declaration was made during an assembly of regional and local governments of Gagauzia in Tomai, next to Cead\u00eer-Lunga. “Just to close this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-445346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gagauzia","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

24 February 2018- The Democrat MP, Corneliu Dudnic, declared that in the case of Moldova uniting with Romania, he would be the first to take his weapon to defend the Gagauz autonomy. The declaration was made during an assembly of regional and local governments of Gagauzia in Tomai, next to Cead\u00eer-Lunga.<\/p>\n

“Just to close this discussion on unionism, I am promising that if this project of Union ever takes place, I will be the first to take my automatic rifle and to defend the Gagauz autonomy”<\/em>, said Dudnic. The Democrat MP also promised to elaborate a draft law on banning political parties with unionist messages.<\/p>\n

Over one thousand people from all over Gagauzia gathered to condemn the symbolic declarations of some 50 villages on union with Romania.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Gagauz leader, Irina Vlah, declared that Gagauzia must stay within an independent Moldova:<\/p>\n

“I would like that this meeting confirms that we are interested in consolidating the statehood of Moldova. I am sure that a strong Gagauzia can exist only in a strong Moldova”<\/em>, underlined Vlah, quoted by Gagauzinfo.md<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Other leaders\u00a0from Gagauzia, such as former head of the Council of “the Republic of Gagauzia”, Mihai Kendigelyan, or the current head of the People’s Assembly, Vladimir Kyssa, proposed to call 2018 the year of Romanian occupation of Gagauzia- apparently because of the period of 1918-1940.<\/p>\n

Most of the speakers at the assembly were mostly concerned about Gagauzia’s possible loss of autonomy in case Moldova loses the statehood:<\/p>\n

“If the state is eliminated, what kind of Gagauzia’s competencies are we talking about? Thus, first of all, we need to talk about consolidating the statehood of our country”<\/em>, stated former regional deputy, Ivan Burgundji.<\/p>\n

What President Dodon and Gagauz people\u00a0call anti-constitutional and threatening acts are just some symbolical statements<\/a> of local councils from about 50 villages, towns or district councils on the occasion of the 1859 Romanian Union Day.<\/p>\n

Gagauzia was established in 1994 as an autonomy for around 150 000 Gagauz (Turkic origin) people in the south of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n

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