Tiraspol wants more Russian troops - Moldova offered to join EU together with Romania
Romania has apparently offered Moldova to join the EU together with them. I guess such move could only be realized if Moldova were to be merged with
Romania. This has made Tiraspol to ask Russia for more troops.
Nine O'Clock: Tiraspol wants more Russian troops
after Basescu’s statements
2006-07-06
Tiraspol wants the number of ‘Russian pacifiers’ in Transdniester to be supplemented after the statements made by Romanian President Traian
Basescu regarding the restoration of the Romanian nation within the EU, Transdniester Security Minister Vladimir Antiufeev, stated on Tuesday, quoted
by BASA-press. Tiraspol maintains that the statements of the Romanian President will influence negotiations for the settlement of the situation in
Transdniester, but Moldovan officials have not made any comments on that.
On the other hand, Antiufeev told a Russian publication that, following what Basescu had said, Tiraspol would insist for a larger number of Russian
troops to be deployed to the region.
“Romania has also offered to R. Moldova, to the head of the Moldovan state, the option of joining the European Union together with us. But it is the
choice of the authorities in Chisinau and of the people of R. Moldova what they should do,” said Basescu in the speech
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Romania claims that a meteorological war is being waged against them by
"a great power east of Romania, which is increasingly annoyed by
Bucharest's policies on the Black Sea region".
Mail & Guardian Online:
Romania probes 'foreign plot' to worsen weather
29 June 2006
The Romanian Senate has opened an inquiry into "indications" that floods that have battered the country were the result of a "meteorological war
waged by a foreign power", a senator said Thursday.
"We are planning to check indications and information that the extreme meteorological phenomena experienced in July and August 2005 were caused by
human technology controlled from abroad," Dan Carlan told Agence France-Presse.
Carlan, who initiated the probe, said officials in the agriculture ministry had suggested that unusually heavy rain that fell in eastern Romania last
year resulted from "a pattern of humidity directed from the Black Sea towards this region".
Moldova is a "failed state"
The Tiraspol Times says that the US has officially put Moldova in on the Failed State Index and that Tiraspol doesn't want to "join" a failed
state...
US foreign policy org: "Moldova is a failed state"
05/Jul/2006
In June 2006, Moldova was officially placed on the Failed State Index. The index, compiled in Washington DC, is a select list of places with serious
governance problems. In its ranking, Moldova scored even worse than Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America.
Economically, Moldova ranked equal to Afghanistan and Sudan ... and, on average, much worse than most of the failed African countries on the list. In
terms of human rights, it tied with Eritrea for the "honors" of an equally terrible human rights record; just a step below Cambodia and Sierra
Leone.
Tiraspol does not want to join a "failed state"
The inclusion of Moldova on the world's list of failed states is seen by Tiraspol's politicians as yet another reason to keep their young state
independent.
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