FRONTUL RE-UNIRII spune:

FRONTUL RE-UNIRII spune:

20 august 2012, la 19:07
To Merkel : Help for Unification !!!

http://euvoice.eu/2012/08/to-merkel-help-for-unification/#comment-128

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Your Excellency,

We are contacting you on behalf of the Romanian-American community regarding your upcoming visit to Chisinau. We appeal to you because throughout the 20th Century Germany played a very important role in Eastern Europe and because history is calling now upon Germany to play a similar role again. Traditionally, Romania has been a friend of Germany and this friendship requires renewal and the remedial of some past mistakes. While visiting Chisinau, please remember that Moldova is a former Romanian province and the “Moldovans” are as much Romanians as the Eastern Germans are Germans. While politics require compromises, the truth cannot be compromised. Sooner or later, Moldova ought to reunite with Romania as East Germany did with the German motherland. We respectfully appeal to you to do whatever possible to foster this Romanian ideal and the Romanians will hold you in utmost respect. We attach further down a Statement with some facts and ideas on this subject

Moldova, Romania and the Trans-Dnestr Republic

In May 2005 Europe marked the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The U.S. Senate, the European Parliament, and many European leaders condemned the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939 that led to the war, the Yalta Agreements of 1945, and the subsequent Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. East Europe is now free, but some of the past wounds are not yet healed. One of them is the former Romanian territory located between the Prut and Dnestr Rivers, also known as Bessarabia, where the current Republic of Moldova is located.

Following the provisions of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Moscow invaded and annexed again Bessarabia in 1940 and for the first time northern Bukovina, both of them former Romanian provinces. It is true that Bessarabia had been first annexed by Russia in 1812 and that it changed hands several times between Russia and Romania, but following the Russian revolution of 1917 this province voted to reunite with Romania. After the 1940 annexation Moscow reorganized the newly acquired land and established the Soviet Moldavian Republic. The annexation was followed by mass arrests, summary executions and countless deportations. Yet, in spite of huge Soviet efforts to change the ethnic character of this land, to this day most of its inhabitants are Romanians. In 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova declared its independence, but from the beginning the country was shaky, had no foundations and no future by itself. The creation of the so-called “Trans-Dnestr Republic” did not improve the situation in the region at all.

As for Romania, ever since the overthrow of communism in 1989, Bucharest has looked to the West for guidance and to the East for the hope of reuniting its old lands. In the meantime, Romania has become a reliable member of NATO and has also been integrated in the European Union. Yet, many Romanians are questioning the soundness of the Western policy with regard to Moldova!

We believe that Germany should be prepared to deal with this matter in a way that would remedy the past errors, would favor Romania’s aspirations, and would help Western interests in the area. It is our firm conviction that the best solution for Moldova is to rejoin Romania. Malborne Graham, a noted expert on East Europe, wrote in the American Journal of International Law in October 1944: “Bessarabia and Bukovina represent the most critical territorial problems left to our generation by the age-old Eastern Question.” Indeed, this territorial problem was left unsolved then and it is still unsolved now. As Romanians living in America, we are aware of Germany’s delicate position and of Russia’s reluctance to resolve these issues, but we also believe in justice and in redressing past wrongs. With good will and an open mind the problems could be properly addressed.

The American-Romanian Committee for Bessarabia, founded by loyal, well established and responsible citizens of the United States, recommends that the United States, Germany, and the West consider the possibility of reunification of this land with Romania. Such an approach would avoid further complications and more undesirable consequences. To this end our Committee, the American Community of Romanian origins and the Romanians living in Germany and the West are ready to lend our full and unconditional support.

For a better understanding of the plea of Moldova, we attach excerpts of some statements of the Democratic Forum of Romanians of Moldova (FDRM), a civic organization founded in Chisinau in August 2005, but with international membership. Their position is that “Reunification is the aspiration of the overwhelming majority of people living both in Romania and in the Republic of Moldova.”

Some of the goals of the Democratic Forum of the Romanians of Moldova are:

-Promotes and defends the fundamental human rights of all the citizens of Moldova, regardless of their ethnic origin;

-Promotes and defends the ideals of freedom and democracy and the rights and interests of the indigenous population of the Republic of Moldova;

-Promotes and defends the historic and scientific truth with regard to the ethno-linguistic, cultural, and religious identity of the indigenous population of Moldova, which is the same as the identity of the entire Romanian nation;

-Requests the ethnic Romanians who live abroad to represent and defend the aspirations of the people that reside in their historical homelands of Romania and Moldova.

In December 2009 FDRM issued the following “Manifest for Unification:”

1) The ethnic Romanian inhabitants of the Republic of Moldova constitute the majority of the population;

2) About 86 percent of all school children are Romanians;

3) Some 80% of the entire population wants to be with Romania in the European Union; and

4) Around 70 percent of the population wants to regain their Romanian citizenship and so far over one million people have applied for it.

And the Manifest continues: “It is our right under international law to regain our parents’ citizenship which we never reneged. In 1940 and 1944 Romania left Bessarabia, but we have never left our mother country. We have only one language, one history and one country called Romania.”

The Manifest also states: “Nations themselves must change their destinies. Now is the moment for Romanians to act, and the moment should not be delayed.” Then it adds:

”The two German states have reunified; the two Vietnams have united; the two Yemen countries have also united. Only North Korea and Romania continue to be split. As of the current status, the Manifest underlines: “We must admit with sadness that after two decades of experiments, this political project called the Republic of Moldova has failed and has no future…”

And our Committee may add: Moldova does have a future and it is with Romania!

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On behalf of the Romanian-American Committee for Bessarabia,

Dr. Nicholas Dima, PhD,

Executive President, former Voice of America editor, former professor at J.F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, U.S. Army, Fort Bragg, NC.

Valentin V. Tepordei,

Communication Vice-President,

Scientist Emeritus