Pro-union march in Bucharest

Thousands of persons took the streets on Sunday in Bucharest, in a march asking Romania’s union with Republic of Moldova. Tricolors have been flown and “Great Romania, old boundaries”, “Russia don’t forget, Bessarabia is not yours” slogans have been chanted. Aged or young, protesters painted the tricolor on their face and heads, wearing folk costumes and tricolor scarfs and bracelets. Persons who did not have flags could buy them for RON 5.

The march is taking place in the Capital’ s Old Center for the third year in a row. Action 2012 Union Platform organized the meeting, arguing Romania’s union with R. Moldova “is the only solution for the citizens over Prut River, inside the present geopolitical context”.

Organizers have asked all presidential candidates to have the union among their targets, the proclamation is however to be sent to Presidency, the Government and the Parliament and to 14 contenders in the upcoming elections. Action 2012 Union Platform also said they would ask R. Moldova officials to speed up “integration process”. “We are witnessing Russia’s unsheathed aggression inside ex-Soviet region. Bessarabia’s only chance to avoid Ukraine’s fate is the union with Romania. We ask all decisional exponents from both countries to speed up R. Moldova’ s joining Romania process”, George Simion, a union platform representative said, as quoted by Hotnews.

PM Ponta: Romania is not Russia, we don’t force territories from anyone

While visiting R.Moldova on Friday, PM Victor Ponta said he cast his vote for the union, but this is not enough, the power of all citizens from both countries being needed. He also said that Russia has seized Bessarabia by force, which Romania would never do. “Romania is not Russia. We do not seize territories by force. If citizens living on both sides of Prut have ever wanted the union, I would definitely vote for that, but my vote is not enough for the union action. But Romania’s invading Moldova and taking it by force will never happen, for Romania belongs to an European, transatlantic value system, where there is no laying violent hands on anything”, Ponta told Publika TV in Kishinev.